What you have done, I know;
What I do, you know not.
All the mischief wrought by my sorceresses is destroyed, dissolved—is gone.
At times the conditions under which the witches are pictured as acting are very elaborate. They are represented as dwelling in places with which mythological conceptions are connected; they are ferried across the river separating their city from human habitations; they are protected against attacks by the walls which surround their habitations. To effect a release, the exorcisers, it would appear, made representations by means of drawings on clay of these habitations of the witches. They thereupon symbolically cut off the approaches and laid siege to the towns. This, at least, appears to be the meaning of an incantation beginning:
My city is Sappan,[391] my city is Sappan;
The gates of my city Sappan are two,
One towards sunrise, the other towards sunset.[392]
I carry a box, a pot with mashtakal herbs;
To the gods of heaven I offer water;
As I for you secure your purification,