Occult Literature
The Ethiopian Amulet of ’Absara Dengel
A haloed standing figure fills one panel beside long columns of handwritten text. Budge identifies Saint Michael, the legend of Susenyos and a late-seventeenth-century amulet made for a woman named ’Absara Dengel.
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Illustrator not identified. "The Ethiopian Amulet of ’Absara Dengel" [editorial title]. In Amulets and Superstitions, E. A. Wallis Budge. Oxford University Press edition, 1930, 1930, Oxford University Press; Humphrey Milford. Source scan leaf 225. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0463-0221
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Editorial title and description. Source details from the Library catalogue.
A historical symbolic image or diagram from the author’s system. Its reproduction records the source without validating its cosmological, magical or astrological claims.
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Illustrator not identified. The Ethiopian Amulet of ’Absara Dengel. Amulets and Superstitions. Scan leaf 225. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0463-0221