just a briefly about the ancient egyptian magic. im not an expert.

1. BY
Siti Nadzirah Binti Md Supar
115606

2. Definition of Magic
"The practice of using
charms, spells, or rituals to
attempt to produce
supernatural events or to
control events in nature."
(The American Heritage
Dictionary )
Magic = Heka

3. Magician
Wands
Ritual purity
Menstruating
women
Bathe
Action
Wear clean
clothes
Semi-circular
ivory wands
Spell
Word
Metal wand
Lector priest

4. USES OF HEKA
Amulet
Dream
& prophecy
Healing The
Dead

5. • used for the prediction of
the future
• Example: dream
interpretation taken from
the Chester Beatty III
papyrus (manuscript) ;
"Seeing his face in a mirror,
bad: it means another wife
"Burying an old man, good: it
means flourishing

7. • Spells help to cure snake bites
• Story: Horus is poisoned by
his enemies and how Isis, his
mother, pleaded for her son's
life, until the sun god, Ra sent
Thoth(son of Ra) to cure him.
The story ends with the
promise that anyone who is
suffering will be healed, as
Horus was healed.

8. • All Egyptians; to preserve their
bodies and souls in the afterlife
• "Pyramid Texts" since they were
inscribed on the walls of the
pyramids. Osiris first appears in
these texts as the lord of the
dead.
• dead person's soul, usually
shown as a bird with a human
head and arms