The online journal of Sean Winslow, a graduate student in Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, focusing on his photography and various thoughts about music, food, and reading.
Zewchoas is one of the chief instructors at the St. Yared Theological Academy in Axum, and has a reputation as a däbtära, a magician (he is also properly a däbtära in its original sense of liturgical specialist). A dwarf, he was picked upon, and learned magic in order to gain respect, notably a method for [...]
A wooden tablet inscribed with a magical formula, when kept in a household, it is supposed to bring wealth into the household.
An image of a demon stares out from the first panel of a magical (prayer) scroll. The image of the demon has inherent magical significance, but it also is meant to show attacking demons their own visage, and thus to scare them. A useful introduction is Jacques Mercier’s ‘Ethiopian Magic Scrolls,’ which presents a variety [...]
A cat lazes in the sun at a house in a hamlet on the Zege Peninsula.