04 - Magic in the Ancient World with Dr. Andrew Henry
Hearth of Hellenism
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How to Do a Cursed Tablet
A lot of these cursed tablets draw an analogy between the materiality and the spell. So they'll say something like just as this lead is cold and dark make so and so cold and dark you know fill them with coldness. It was this very stable ritual for so long why it kind of fizzled out I don't know but it seems to people stop doing it sometime in the late period maybe the acquisition of lead became really suspicious as Christianity.
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