sorcerer
“yātudhāna”
group · 3 works · 3 mentions · 4 anchored passages
sorcerers · yātudhāna
spoken of as
1 expressionsorcerers2 mentions
Letters (Greek) · Stromata (Greek)
that a certain woman made an appearance before your serenity over the ruin of her child, who had been killed by poisoning, and that it has been judged by you that sorcerers should nowhere exist, but that, where they do exist, they should be put to death — or that those alone should be preserved whose contest is with the beasts.
in the texts
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda)
The malevolent sorcerer whose body and workings are repeatedly cursed and turned back upon himself.
This head of yours I split, O sorcerer — svāhā!
This neck of yours I split, O sorcerer — svāhā!
This skin of yours I split, O sorcerer — svāhā!
Letters
Practitioners of sorcery targeted by Julian's judicial ruling after a poisoning case.
that a certain woman made an appearance before your serenity over the ruin of her child, who had been killed by poisoning, and that it has been judged by you that sorcerers should nowhere exist, but that, where they do exist, they should be put to death — or that those alone should be preserved whose contest is with the beasts.
Stromata
Practitioners of ritual purifications mocked as ineffective and unclean.
" These same men, worshipping every piece of wood and every stone, as the saying goes—anointing them—stand in dread of red wool and lumps of salt and torches, of squill and brimstone, being bewitched by the sorcerers with their unclean purifications.