Section outline

  • Week VI (October 5 & 7)  Prayer and Magic

    Topics:

    ·      thanks before and after

    ·      supplication and coercion

    ·      relationships with divine powers

     

    Readings:

    ·      Edmonds, Drawing Down the Moon, ch. 6

    ·      PGM I 262-347; III 494-611; IV 2241-2358; XII 14-95

    ·      Prayer handout

    ·      Ogden 233

     

    Supplementary Readings:

    • ·       Alkhoury, Addressing the Gods with Verse and Incense
    • ·       Bortolani, Magical Hymns (Introduction)
    • Depew, Reading Greek Prayers
    • Graf, Prayer in Magical and Religious Ritual - Magika Hiera, ch. 7
    • ·       Graf, Words and Act
    • Mauss, The Gift
    • Sallustius, On the Gods and the World
    • Tambiah, The Magical Power of Words
    • Versnel, The Poetics of the Magical Charm