Lilith Incantation Bowls

(These are all inscriptions that come from small ceramic bowls; you can find images of these bowls on this link)

I.  Lilith Exorcized on a Persian Bowl

 (The Semetic Museum, Harvard University)
 

       You are bound and sealed,
            all you demons and devils and liliths,
       by that hard and strong,
            mighty and powerful bond with which are tied Sison and Sisin....
       The evil Lilith,
            who causes the hearts of men to go astray
            and appears in the dream of the night
            and in the vision of hte day,
       Who burns and casts down with nightmare,
            attacks and kills children,
            boys an girls.
       She is conquered and sealed
            away from the house
            and from the threshold of Bahram-Gushnasp son of Ishtar-Nahid
       by the talisman of Metatron,
            the great prince
            who is called the Great Healer of Mercy....
       who vanquishes demons and devils,
            black arts and mighty spells
            and keeps them away from the house
            and threshold of Bahram-Gushnasp, son of Ishtar-Nahid.
       Amen, Amen, Selah.

       Vanquished are the black arts and mighty spells.
       Vanquished the bewitching women,
            they, their witchery and their spells,
            their curses and their invocations,
            and kept away from the four walls
                of the house of Bahram-Gushnasp, the son of Ishtar-Hahid.
       Vanquished and trampled down are the bewitching women --
            vanquished on earth and vanquished in heaven.
       Vanquished are their constellations and stars.
            Bound are the works of their hands.
       Amen, Amen, Selah.

(Patai78:228f)

Lilith gets Divorced

       This is the get for a demon and spirits and Satan
            ...and Lilith in order to banish them from... the entire house.
       Yah ...cut off the king of the demons
            ...the great ruler of the liliths.
       I adjure you ...whether you are male or female,
            I adjure you....
       Just as the demons write letters of divorce
            and give them to their wives and do not again return to them,
       so take your letter of divorce,
            accept your stipend share [ketubba],
       and go and leave and depart from the house....
       Amen, Amen, Amen, Selah.

(Patai78:226f)

 Lilith Divorced Again

 (University Museum, University of Pennsylvania)
 

       In the name of the Lord of salvations.
       Designated is this bowl
            for the sealing of the house of this
                Geyonai bar Mamai,
       that there flee from him the evil Lilith,
            in the name of "YHWH-El has scattered";
                the Lilith,
                the male lilin,
                the female liliths,
                the Hag [ghost?],
                and the Snatcher,
                the three of you,
                    the four of you
                    and the five of you.
       Naked are you sent forth,
            nor are you clad,
       with your hair dishevelled
            and let fly behind your backs.
       It is made known to you,
            whose father is named Palhas
            and whose mother is Pelahdad:
       Hear and obey
            and come from from the house and dwelling of this
                Geyonai bar Mamai,
                and from Rashnoi his wife,
                    the daughter of Marath.

       ...Be informed herewith
            that Rabbi Joshua bar Perahia
                has sent the ban against you....
       A divorce-writ [gita] has come down to us from Heaven,
       and therein is found written
            your advisement and your intimidation,
            in the name of Palsa-Pelisa ["Divorcer-Divorced"],
       who renders to thee thy divorce and thy separation,
            your divorces and your separations.
       Thou, Lilith, male lili and female lilith, Hag and Snatcher,
            be under the ban...of Joshua bar Perahia,
       who has thus spoken:
            A divorce-writ has come for you
            from across the sea....
            Hear it and depart from
                the house and dwelling of this
                     Geyonai bar Mamai,
                     and from Rashnoi his wife,
                         the daughter of Marath.
       You shall not again appear to them,
            either in a deram by night
            or in slumber by day,
       because you are sealed with the signet fo El-Shaddai,
       and with the signet of the house of Joshua bar Perahia
            and by the Seven who are before him.
       Thou, Lilith, male lili and female lilith, Hag and Snatcher,
       I adjuire you
            by the Strong One of Abbraham,
            by the Rock of Isaac,
            by the Shaddai of Jacob,
            by Yah [is] his name...,
            by Yah his memorial...
       I adjure you to turn away from this
             Geyonai bar Mamai,
             and from Rashnoi his wife,
                 the daughter of Marath.
       Your divorce and writ and letter of separation...
            sent through holy angels...
            the Hosts of fire in the spheres,
            the Chariots of El-Panim before him standing,
            the beasts worshipping in the fire of his throne
                and in the water... Amen, Amen, Selah, Halleluyah!

(Patai78:225f)