The Babylonian Ghost of a Woman in the Maqlû Tradition

Record summary

The Maqlû series and related Babylonian exorcistic materials invoke harmful supernatural agents, including dead or ghost-like forces, within rituals against witchcraft and affliction. They offer a comparison point for how symptoms, accusations, ritual speech, and imagined attackers were organized in a professional scribal setting. This material should be studied alongside archaeological tablets and philological commentary rather than treated as a narrative case history. The exact identity of entities in individual passages is often uncertain because terms overlap among demons, ghosts, witches, and ritual metaphors.