E. A. Wallis Budge’s Egyptian Magic

Record summary

E. A. Wallis Budge’s Egyptian Magic, published at the end of the nineteenth century, assembled translations and discussions of amulets, spells, divine names, healing, curse practices, and magical papyri. It became influential among occult readers while also representing an early stage of Egyptological synthesis. The book is a valuable lead for studying how museum objects and philological material were reframed as a continuous magical tradition. Its classifications and translations are historically important but often outdated, and later scholarship disputes several linguistic, chronological, and interpretive conclusions.