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head. Take about one pound vinegar and dissolve the
whole statue in it with some musk seed, quarter dirham
amber, four dirham wood sticks with fine edges and half
pound of lupine flour. Put them on the fire till it boils and
thickens. Then make flat disks each disk weighs quarter
dirham and put it to the Moon for seven nights. The wise
men used this charm in their trips to so many countries
and at any place that they encountered lions, snakes and
scorpions they were never harmed by them and these
animals and insects would pass by them.
Invoking the Moon when it is descending in Leo,
approach the Moon at a flat ground area that is
uninhabited. Bring with you seven braziers; put them m a
circle on that ground between each one of them about one
cubit. As you are receiving the Moon put between every
two braziers a goose egg and draw on the egg the svmbol:
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Then take a thick nail made of yellow copper about
three spans long. Hold it in your right hand and wear on
your head a yellow turban made of wool and also wear a
yellow shirt made also of wooL Then sacrifice the rooster
with the separated comb in the middle of the circle with
the braziers around iL Then bum your sacrifice on the
Driers after rotting it to pieces and put on each brazier a
piece of iL Take from the blood of the sacrifice couple of
drops by using the yellow nail and drop it on each brazier
and also on each egg. Then pick two of the braziers and
**ke the egg after the second and put them in front of you.
*nen take the nail and hit the egg and as you cense with
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