Ancient Egyptian Magic

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Summary: AN LIGHT INTRODUCTION TO EGYPTIAN MAGIC
Review: Those who want to find in this book something like a "recipient"-book for practicing ancient Egyptian magic, are quite wrong and must look in another way. Those who claim that the collection of "translated" spells at the end of the book "actually work on", are either fancy-minded people or, sorry to say it, must look for psychological assistance. How can anybody believe that an "ancient Egyptian" spell could work "translated into English", when it was the proper intonation of the "ancient Egyptian" spoken language, what made the "thing" to work on? Just stop speaking non-sense. This book is written by a well-known scholar and is a scholarly book from start to end. None the less, it is not all the good one that it should be. It has well-worked chapters, such as those on Hieroglyphs and Amulets, and the one on the Objets from the tomb of Tutankhamun, but otherwise, there is not much new-oriented research: it aims to the general public, and in this sense,it fulfills its aims. One further comment: it is curious that in a book on Magic the reader is unable to find any attempt to define what is Magic at all.