https://k-a-nitz.dreamwidth.org/ k_a_nitz - Dreamwidth Studios Wed, 09 Aug 2023 09:13:02 GMT LiveJournal / Dreamwidth Studios k_a_nitz personal https://v2.dreamwidth.org/16740320/3982319 https://k-a-nitz.dreamwidth.org/ 100 86 https://k-a-nitz.dreamwidth.org/2117.html Wed, 09 Aug 2023 09:13:02 GMT https://k-a-nitz.dreamwidth.org/2117.html From a book I am translating at the moment (Dornseiff's <em>Das Alphabet in Mystik und Magie</em>):<div style="margin-left: 40px;">In order to make a child eager to learn and easily comprehending, a modern Greek magic spell advises writing the ABC on a bowl which is brought for the holy bread to have it blessed and dissolving the writing with pure wine; which the child should drink.</div><br />The sources given are:<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Abbott, Macedonian Folklore, Cambridge 1903 p. 362. Pradel, Griechische Gebete etc. Religionsgesch. Versuche und Vorarbeiten III, Gie&szlig;en 1907 p. 381; Jacoby, Archiv f&uuml;r Religionswissenschaft 13 (1910) 529.</div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=k_a_nitz&ditemid=2117" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://k-a-nitz.dreamwidth.org/2117.html letter mysticism learning magic public 0