The Key of Solomon the King: Clavicula Salomonis by S. L. Macgregor Mathers

Author:S. L. Macgregor Mathers [Mathers, S. L. Macgregor]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
ISBN: 9781633410428
Publisher: Red Wheel Weiser
Published: 2016-10-31T18:30:00+00:00

The Manner of causing the Sieve to turn, that thou mayest know who Has committed the Theft.4

Take a Sieve and stick into the outside of the rim the open points of a pair of scissors, and having rested the rings of the said opened scissors on the thumb-nails of two persons, let one of them say the following Prayer:

Prayer.

Dies mies yes-chet bene done fet Donnima Metemauz; O Lord, Who liberatedst the holy Susanna from a false accusation of crime; O Lord, Who liberatedst the holy Thekla; O Lord, Who rescuedst the holy Daniel from the den of lions, and the Three Children from the burning fiery furnace, free the innocent and reveal the guilty.

After this let him or her pronounce aloud the names and surnames of all the persons living in the house where the theft hast been committed, who may be suspected of having stolen the things in question, saying:

‘By Saint Peter and Saint Paul, such a person hath not done this thing.’ And let the other reply:

‘By Saint Peter and Saint Paul, he (or she) hath not done it.’

Let this be repeated thrice for each person named and suspected, and it is certain that on naming the person who hath committed the theft or done the crime, the sieve will turn of itself without its being able to stop it, and by this thou shalt know the evil doer.

1 This is simply the Hebrew of the prayer which follows; but in the MS. Codices it is so mutilated as to be worthless.

2 A child employed as a clairvoyant in the operation; as is still the custom in some places in the East.

3 The rest of this Chapter is from 1203 Lansdowne MSS.

4 This is the ancient divination by the sieve and shears, and from St. Peter and St. Paul being mentioned in it, has evidently undergone a mediæval reconstruction.

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