[133.2] I described one such leaden tablet, found at Dymock, Gloucestershire, in Reliquary, N.S., iii. 140. Another was subsequently found at Lincoln’s Inn, and reported on by Mr W. Paley Baildon to the Society of Antiquaries (Proc. Soc. Anti., 2nd ser., xviii. 141). Others have also been found elsewhere, among them two on Gatherley Moor in Yorkshire. If the identification of the persons against whom the tablets on Gatherley Moor and at Lincoln’s Inn were directed be conclusively established, they antedate by more than half a century the translation above referred to of Agrippa’s book. This of course is by no means impossible, or indeed improbable, for the practitioners of occult science in the reign of Queen Elizabeth were frequently men of learning.
[134.1] Fasc. Malay, ii. 41.
[135.1] Alan H. Gardiner, Oxford Cong. Rep., i. 210.
[135.2] Budge, Archæologia, lii. 421 sqq., transliterating, translating, and commenting on a papyrus in the British Museum, which belonged to a priest of Ra about the year B.C. 305, and contains the ritual for the purpose.
[135.3] Wiedemann, 94.
[136.1] Wiedemann, 279.
[136.2] Ibid., 99.
[136.3] Budge, Archæologia, lii. 425, 440, 539 sqq. The Egyptian gods merged into one another like the dissolving pictures of a lantern. This was probably in part the result of the union in one kingdom of a number of petty states, which were centres of worship of disparate though cognate divinities, and the consequent effort to synthesize these divinities and their worship, and in part the issue of philosophical speculation, itself doubtless influenced by political events.
[136.4] Wiedemann, 54; Budge, Egypt. Magic, 137. Dr Frazer’s version, Taboo, 387, is formed on a comparison of these and other texts.
[137.1] Wiedemann, 273. More personal threats are often employed. See, for examples, Arch. Rel., xvi. 85.