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To kill a foe: write these twelve names on deerskin or calfskin parchment on Monday evening at the third or fourth hour, or at those times at night. And this is what you shall write:
He who gives…
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Unknown
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17th Century
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Westheim, Holy Roman Empire
(Westheim, Germany)
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ca. 1750
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Artist Unknown
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Venice, Republic of Venice
(Venice, Italy)
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ca. 1750
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Printed birth amulet. The decorative borders are composed of printers’ devices and decorations that were used by printers in Fürth (Bavaria), so it is assumed that this amulet was printed in that city…
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Artist Unknown
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Fürth, Holy Roman Empire
(Fürth, Germany)
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ca. 1750
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Amulets for the evil eye; tested. Write on either a kosher or deerskin parchment, on a day of [reading from] the Torah, before eating anything. And calculate in that hour which day it is and which…
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16th or 17th Century
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Moses Mendez Coutinho
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1701
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Artist Unknown
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ca. 1725
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Artist Unknown
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ca. 1750