24/10/2011

Catching thieves

If the following talisman be sketched on an egg and buried in a grave, the abdomen of the individual who has stolen will swell, and remain so, until the egg is taken out of the earth. In the square is to be written, „May the belly of him who is the thief, through the influence of this diagram, swell“.

Arabic Talismans for Love and Happiness

 The practice of making talismans originates from ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, and entered the Arab world through the Greco-Syriac and Per...