word

Incantation

Words · Rituals

Spoken formula meant to work by being said. Not spell as a broader craft-word alone, and not mantra under a Latin name.

Egyptian religion

  • Incantation appears in Egyptian religion.

    The Book of the Dead is a corpus of spoken incantations for the dead. A named incantation speech in that funerary book, not spell as the written spell-unit already filed and not charm-word jargon.

    from Raymond O. Faulkner (translation) · Book of the Dead, New Kingdom spells; Faulkner trans. 1972

    appears in · sourced · documented

sources

  • Book of the Dead · Raymond O. Faulkner (translation)

    Raymond O. Faulkner, The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead.