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The Devils and Evil Spirits of Babylonia: Being Babylonian and Assyrian Incantations Against the Demons, Ghouls, Vampires, Hobgoblins, Ghosts, and Kindred ... Which Attack Mankind (Classic Reprint)
The Devils and Evil Spirits of Babylonia Being Babylonian and Assyrian Incantations Against the Demons Ghouls Vampires Hobgoblins Ghosts and Kindred Which Attack Mankind - Classic Reprint Author:R. Campbell Thompson (preface. The object of the two volumes which form the present work is to supply the student of Assyrian Demonology with English transliterations and translations, with the necessary notes, etc., of the documents printed in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Parts of Cuneiform Texts from Babylonian Tablets, etc., which have been recently issued by th... more »e Trustees of the British Museum. An examination of these two Parts will show that they contain copies of all the Tablets belonging to the Series Utukki Limnuti, Asakki Marsuti, and Ti'i, i.e., " Evil Spirits," " Fever Sickness," and " Headache," which have now been identified, together with the texts of a considerable number of compositions of a similar character. These collections of Evil Spirit Texts form large and important sections of the native literature concerning Babylonian and Assyrian Demonology, and there is reason to believe that the material now published represents about one-half of that belonging to the three Series ment
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