the original texts with translations and descriptions of a long series of Egyptian, Sumerian, Assyrian, Hebrew, Christian, Gnostic, and Muslim amulets and talismans and magical figures, with chapters on the evil eye, the origin of the amulet, the pentagon, the swăstika, the cross (pagan and Christian), the properties of stones, rings, divination, numbers, the Kabbâlâh, ancient astrology, etc Budge, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis) Sir 1857-1934 creator text nyu New York Dover Publications 1978 monographic eng

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xxxix, 543 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. by E. A. Wallis Budge. Reprint of the 1930 ed. published by Oxford University Press, London. Includes index. Amulets Superstition BF 1561 .B8 1978 133.4/4/095 0486235734 : 77086708 DLC 780331 20151006145248.0 361064