sorcerers
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nafs sāḥir · sorcerer · sāḥir · the sorcerer · what they have wrought · yātudhāna · ساحر · نفس ساحر
spoken of as
2 expressionsThe sorcerers1 mention
Kitāb al-Zawrāʼ wa-al-taʻlīqāt ʻalayhi (Arabic)
«and cast down what is in your right hand, and it shall swallow up what they have wrought;
sorcerer“yātudhāna”1 mention
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda) (Sanskrit)
may the sorcery, once fashioned, turn upon the sorcerer who fashioned it, as a chariot turns upon a smooth road.
in the texts
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda)
The malevolent sorcerer whose body and workings are repeatedly cursed and turned back upon himself.
may the sorcery, once fashioned, turn upon the sorcerer who fashioned it, as a chariot turns upon a smooth road.
The sorcery they wrought upon the roads, upon the eggplants, and in the circular enclosures, and the sorcery they worked into the frog — with that very (sorcery), slay the sorcerer.
The sorcery goes back to the maker of sorcery, as a monitor lizard that has found its burrow;
Mukhtaṣar fī ʻilm al-nafs al-insānīyah
Sorcerers, whose souls work extraordinary effects by the same property as prophets' souls but to an evil end.
One of them, that the rational soul does this by its own property — and if that is good, it is the soul of a prophet, and if it is evil, the soul of a sorcerer.
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.
Kitāb al-Zawrāʼ wa-al-taʻlīqāt ʻalayhi
The sorcerers of the Mosaic contest, invoked in the quoted verse as the type of the disputants fabricated devices.
«and cast down what is in your right hand, and it shall swallow up what they have wrought;