Wizards and Sorcerers: From Abracadabra to Zoroaster by Tom Ogden

Wizards and Sorcerers: From Abracadabra to Zoroaster

Tom Ogden

246 pages first pub 1997 (editions)

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Tablets from seventh-century B.C. Nineveh document the ancient Assyrians' ritual use of "holy water", their belief in the power of the number seven, and their fear of the "evil eye" - all notions still familiar to us 27 centuries later. Wizards an...

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