The Powers of Hell: A Deadly Curse from Medieval Egypt
Dec 27, 2019
*Guest post by Korshi Dosoo; see his bio here. Somewhere in Upper Egypt, around the tenth century CE, someone wanted to destroy a man named Haron. They took a pair of rib bones from a large animal, perhaps a cow or a camel, still wet with gristle, and they wrote a curse three times, on … More The Powers of Hell: A Deadly Curse from Medieval Egypt