ABSTRACT
The Coptic to work magic; giver of magical drugs which is the general consent of Egyptologists translated by 'magic'. The early Egyptologists did not trouble themselves about Egyptian Magic and no mention of it is made in the index to the last edition of Wilkinson's Ancient Egyptians, London, 1878. Erman says, 'Magic is a barbarous offshoot of religion and is an attempt to influence the powers that preside over the destiny of mankind'. Moret distinguishes between natural power and magical power and points out that while the priest prays or entreats the magician commands. The magician made his powers effective at distance by the use of amulets which had various forms and by means of figures or models of human beings and animals &c. The spiritual development of the EGYPTIANS advanced, the importance of magic, except for religious purposes, seems to declined and in the funerary papyri of the Persian and Ptolemaic periods nearly all the old spells are wanting.
