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2 thousand years ago, an Egyptian woman named Taromeya wanted to bewitch a man named Kefalas so badly that she decided to write a spell and summon a ghost who was supposed to perform it and make Kefalas go to bed with her
Having deciphered the hieroglyphs on the ancient Egyptian papyrus, scientists were amazed at the message they contained. The text in the papyrus turned out to be like a spell of love spell.
In particular, it was indicated that a man named Kefalas will have intense anxiety until they have sex with a woman named Taromeya.
He will have "anxiety at noon, evening and at all times," read the note, at the very bottom of which, for clarity, silhouettes of a naked man and the god Anubis with a dog's head were depicted.
The man's genitals in the drawing are deliberately greatly enlarged, and an arrow, sent from the bow of Anubis, sticks out in his chest. Anubis here, by the way, looks incredibly similar to Cupid.
This spell of bewitchment was probably written and drawn by order of Taromei herself, after which it was placed in a random grave to summon the spirit of this deceased person. This spirit was supposed to pursue Kefalas everywhere and make him feel the same "anxiety".
“Basically, we have a call to the spirit to rise up and start tormenting the person,” says Dr. Robert Rietner, who, together with his colleague Foy Skalf of the University of Chicago, deciphered the Egyptian papyrus.
"As a rule, this is called a love spell, but in fact it is not about emotional attraction, but in fact the desire to force sex."
Further in the papyrus it is indicated that Kefalas must suffer from the torment of love sickness, could not eat, could not drink, and must follow in the footsteps of Taromea until "his male parts unite with her female parts."
This papyrus, which, despite many holes, has survived in a more or less readable state, was dated to about the second half of the 1st century AD - 2nd century AD.
The papyrus was acquired by the University of Michigan in 1924 from an unspecified source, so where exactly this papyrus was found is unknown. Presumably it was created in the Fayyum region (Middle Egypt).
Spells like this were not uncommon in the late Greco-Roman period of Egypt, but they were usually written by a man to a woman.
Researchers believe that Taromeya was not necessarily rich, but at least she was a fairly wealthy woman. Egyptian women at that time rarely knew how to read and write, so Taromea had the money to hire a professional scribe to compose the spell.
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