
Magicians, Ghosts, Amulets, and Spells: Daniel Ogden on Græco-Roman Magic
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Ghosts, You're Wearing a Ring, Is That a Wedding Ring?
The lekithoi show people attending graves making offerings and then soon need to interact in some way with the inhabiting ghosts. That would seem to suggest to me that there's a notion that the ghosts are present in daily life, not necessarily always in a threatening way. There also seems to have been a very pervasive use of emulates and things like that that you mentioned earlier. Is it fair to say that basically everyone was walking around with their emulate? We've stopped writing magical recipe books, I don't so often write crafts tablets anymore. Although Greek and Roman amulets do tie in thematically in a strong way with the rest of the magical repertoire. The spirit of romance is
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