Abstract:

With the first volume on Biblical and Pagan Societies still forthcoming, the series begins with Ancient Greece and Rome. In “Binding Spells: Curse Tablets and Voodoo Dolls,” the first contributor, Daniel Ogden, University of Wales, Swansea, reviews the over 1,600 clay, wood and lead tablet and “voodoo dolls” (an unfortunate term left over from a less enlightened age) which
were made to curse, petition and protect

Author: Dana Kramer-Rolls