DEVILS AND EVIL SPIRITS OF BABYLONIA, BEING BABYLONIAN AND ASSYRIAN INCANTATIONS AGAINST THE DEMONS, GHOULS, VAMPIRES, HOBGOBLINS, GHOSTS, AND KINDRED EVIL SPIRITS, WHICH ATTACK MANKIND. Translated from the Original Cuneiform Texts, with Transliterations, Vocabulary, Notes, Etc.
Book Details + Condition: Forgotten Books, Reprint Edition 2012. Two-volume softcover set. Vol I: 211 pp; Vol 2: 179 pp. In like-new condition, with minor shelf wear (the volumes have not been read); and a clean interior.
Reginald Campbell Thompson (1876-1941), grandson of the mathematician Augustus De Morgan, studied Eastern languages at Cambridge, and in 1899 began his career in the British Museum's department of Egyptian and Assyrian antiquities. He participated in excavations at Nineveh and Carchemish with colleagues including Leonard William King and David George Hogarth. Thompson's later publications included a verse translation of The Epic of Gilgamish, and studies of ancient science. Published in 1903-4, this two-volume work made a substantial contribution to modern knowledge of ancient Babylonian demonology and magical practices. Volume 2 focuses on purification rituals, protection against disease, and descriptions of supernatural beings, but also contains additional protective charms against evil spirits. The work includes transliterations and explanatory notes, and was designed to accompany earlier British Museum publications of cuneiform texts from the seventh-century BCE Library of Ashurbanipal at Nineveh.
