ABSTRACT
Th e naked goddess and Mistress of Animals as an apotropaion e object of this chapter is to show how ancient magic and myth interacted. A good example of such interaction is Circe, the Homeric witch. As I hope to show, magical images engraved on amulets and imported to Greece from the Near East were combined with rituals and literary tradition to give shape to the mythical persona of Circe the witch.
