historiola

{{short description|Incantation incorporating a short mythic story}}

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The historiola is a modern term for a kind of incantation incorporating a short mythic story that provides the paradigm for the desired magical action.Fritz Graf, [http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1574-9347_bnp_e515850 "Historiola"], in Brill’s New Pauly. Consulted online on 29 December 2020. {{cite journal|last1=Faraone|first1=Christopher|title=Hermes but No Marrow: Another Look at a Puzzling Magical Spell|journal=Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik|date=1988|volume=72|pages=279–286|jstor=20186827}} It can be found in ancient Mesopotamian,{{cite book|last1=Ceravolo|first1=Marinella|title=L'historiola nella Mesopotamia antica. Mito, rito e performatività|date=2022|publisher=Bulzoni|location=Rome|ISBN=978-88-6897-284-4|url=https://www.bulzoni.it/it/catalogo/l-historiola-nella-mesopotamia-antica.html}}

Egyptian{{cite book|last=Frankfurter| first=David|editor1-last=Meyer|editor1-first=Marvin|editor2-last=Mirecki|editor2-first=Paul|title=Ancient Magic and Ritual Power|year=1995|publisher=E. J. Brill|chapter=Narrating Power: The Theory and Practice of the Magical Historiola in Ritual Spells|isbn=0-8014-2550-6}} and Greek mythology, in the Aramaic Uruk incantation, incorporated in Mandaean incantations,{{cite journal|last1=Müller-Kessler|first1=Christa|title=The Story of Bguzan-Lilit, Daughter of Zanay-Lilit|journal=Journal of the American Oriental Society|date=1996|volume=116|issue=2|pages=185–195|doi=10.2307/605694|jstor=605694}}Müller-Kessler, Christa (1999). "Aramäische Beschwörungen und astronomische Omina in nachbabylonischer Zeit: Das Fortleben mesopotamischer Kultur im Vorderen Orient." In Johannes Renger (ed.), Babylon: Focus Mesopotamischer Geschichte, Wiege früher Gelehrsamkeit, Mythos in der Moderne. 2. Internationales Colloquium der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft, Berlin 1998. Saarbrücken: SDV, pp. 432–443. {{ISBN|3-930843-54-4}}Müller-Kessler, Christa (2017). "Zauberschalen und ihre Umwelt. Ein Überblick über das Schreibmedium Zauberschale". In Kamran, Jens; Schäfer, Rolf; Witte, Markus (eds.). Zauber und Magie im antiken Palästina und in seiner Umwelt. Abhandlungen des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins, 46. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, pp. 77–84. {{ISBN|978-3-447-10781-5}} as well as in Jewish kabbalah.Naveh, Joseph; Shaked, Shaul (1985). Amulets and Magic Bowls: Aramaic Incantations of Late Antiquity. Jerusalem: Magnes Press, pp. 111–124. {{ISBN|965-223-531-8}}{{cite book|last1=Swartz|first1=Michael D.|title=Scholastic Magic: Ritual and Revelation in Early Jewish Mysticism|date=1996|publisher=Princeton University Press|location=Princeton|pages=198–199|oclc=884012615|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/884012615|access-date=14 December 2014}} There are also Christian examples evoking Christian legends.