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Vignoli, Tito - On healing spells
Identifier
007305
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
A description of the experience
Tito Vignoli – On Dreams, Illusions, Hallucinations, Delirium and Madness [from Myth and Matter]
Theophrastus tells us that blowing a flute over the affected limb was supposed to cure gout; the Romans recited carmina to drive away disease and demons; the old Slav word for physician, vraci, comes from a root which means to murmur; in Serbian, vrac is a physician, and balii, an enchanter or physician.
The use of incantations as a remedy prevailed among the Greek's in Homer's time. The Atarva-Veda retains the old formula of imprecation against disease, and the Zend-avesta divides physicians into three classes, those which cure with the knife, with herbs, and with magic formulas.
Kuhn believes that the Latin word nederi refers to these procedures, comparing with it the Sanscrit meth, medh, to oppose or curse. Pictet traces the meaning of exorciser in another Sanscrit word for a physician; Bhisag from sag, sang to objurate.
The source of the experience
Vignoli, TitoConcepts, symbols and science items
Symbols
MagicianScience Items
Activities and commonsteps
Activities
Overloads
GoutListening to sound and music
Suppressions
Listening to musicSinging spells