Amulets and talismans
By: by E.A. Wallis Budge.
Publisher: Carol Publishing Group
Published: 1992
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 543
Subjects: Amulets; Superstition
Notes: "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 swastika, the cross (pagan and Christian), the properties of stones, rings, divination, numbers, the Kabbalah, ancient astrology, etc."