by Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge · Routledge & Kegan Paul · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780710001351
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«Egyptian Magic» is E. A. Wallis Budge's essay on Egyptian magic, published by Routledge & Kegan Paul in paperback (234 pages, in English).
Analyses the central place of magic in ancient Egyptian religiosity and its link with ceremonies and worship. Describes practices such as amulets, stones, figures, formulas, spells and magical names, and addresses demonic possessions, dreams, ghosts, lucky and unlucky days, horoscopes, prognostics, transformations and animal worship.
Published in 1979 as a reprint of the 1899 work, with twenty line drawings.
For readers interested in the history of religions, ancient Egyptian culture and esotericism.
Sir Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge was an English Egyptologist, Orientalist, and philologist who worked for the British Museum and published numerous works on the ancient Near East. He made numerous trips to Egypt and Anglo-Egyptian Sudan on behalf of the British Museum to buy antiquities, and helped it build its collection of cuneiform tablets, manuscripts, and papyri. He published many books on Egyptology, helping to bring the findings to larger audiences. In 1920, he was knighted for his service to Egyptology and the British Museum.
