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E. A. Wallis Budge examines magical beliefs and practices in ancient Egypt through texts, objects and funerary customs. His account moves from amulets and magical figures to spoken formulas, names of power, ritual ceremonies and the treatment of dreams, ghosts and auspicious days.
Illustrations show objects and scenes discussed in the text, including protective figures, the weighing of the heart and ceremonies connected with the dead. Budge relates these materials to the religious literature available to him and to beliefs about the powers of words and images. This is the complete illustrated 1901 second impression of a work first published in 1899, with its original historical binding and pages.