Motif
personified illness commanded to depart
personified_illness_commanded_to_depart
A motif of the Curse, Blessing, and Performative Sacred Speech family, within the sub-family Blessings, Healing, and Protective Charms. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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sufi
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The Mesnevi THE ACTS OF THE ADEPTS / CHAPTER I. / CHAPTER II. / CHAPTER III.; lines 2932-3050 confidence: high
Jelāl cures a disciple’s intermittent fever by writing an invocation, washing the ink into water, and giving it to the patient to drink; the invocation addresses the ague by nickname, commands it not to harm the head, throat, flesh, or blood, and tells it to depart, ending with Islamic testimony.
The invocation speaks directly to the fever by a nickname, commands it not to injure the body, and orders it to leave the patient.
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