1.
On the day and in the hour of Mars, in a room lit by black candles and suffumigated by
Martial incense, call first upon Mars by way of the Orphic Hymn dedicated unto him.
2. On a tablet of ceramic or clay, inscribe your curse, a product of your own creation
written to express your desired end, while repeating it vocally.
3. When the tablet is completed, take it along with the remnants of the candle and ashes
of the incense and an amount of graveyard dirt sufficient to cover the surface of the
tablet, to the location selected so that no part of it is exposed.
4. Dig a hole 9 inches in depth. Place the tablet, candles, and incense ash therein, with the
graveyard dirt covering the surface completely so that no part of it exposed.
5. Begin slowly filling in the "grave", while speaking the incantation:
Daimones under the earth and daimones whoever you may be, you who lie here and you
who sit here, since you take men's grievous passion from their heart, take over the
passion and hatred of N. which he has toward me, N. and his anger; and take away from
him his strength and power and make him cold and speechless and breathless, apathetic
toward me!
I invoke you by the great gods, MASOMASIMABLABOIO MAMAXO EUMAZO
ENDENEKOPTOURA MELOPHTHEMARAR AKOU RASROEEKAMADOR
MACHTHOUDOURAS KITHORASA KEPHOZON, the goddess
ACHTHAMODOIRALAR AKOU RAENT AKOU RALAR, ALAR OUECHEARMALAR
KARAMEPTHE SISOCHOR ADONEIA of the earth CHOUCHMATHERPHES
THERMOMASMAR ASMACHOURCHIMANOU PHILAESOSI gods of the underworld,
take over from N. the passion and anger they hold toward me, and hand him over to the
doorkeeper in Hades, MATHUREUPHRAMENOS, and to the one who is appointed over
the gate to Hades and the door bolts of heaven, STERXERX ERER, the earthshaker
ARDAMACHTOUR PRISGEU LAMPADEU, and bury in the mournful grave the one
whose name is written on this defixio which brings about silence. I invoke you the king of
the unhearing, useeeing, and voiceless daimones. Hear the great name, for the great
SISOCHOR rules over you, the ruler of the gates to Hades. Of my opponent N. bind and
put to sleep the tongue, the passion and the anger he holds toward me lest he oppose me
in any matter. I invoke you daimones - buried in a single grave, violently slain, untimely
dead, not properly buried - by her who bursts forth from the earth and carries down into
the grave the limbs of MELIOUCHOS and MELIOUCHOS himself. I inoke you by
ACHALEMORPHCPH who is the only god of the the earth OSOUS OSORONOPHIRS
SERAPIS, do whatever is written herein. O much lamented tomb and gods of the
underworld and Hekate of the underworld and Heremes of the underworld and Plouton
and the infernal Erinues and you who lie here below, untimely dead and unnamed,
EUMAZON, take away the voice of he who is opposing me,
I deposit with you this charge and spell to make N. silent, and give over his name to the
infernal gods. ALLA ALKE KE ALKEO LALATHANATAO, three-named Kore. These
shall always carry out my desires for me, for I know well their names. Awaken yourself
for me, you who hold the infernal kingdom of all the Erinues. I invoke you by the gods in
Hades, OUCHITOU, the dispenser of of tombs, AOTH IOMOS TIOIE
IOEGOOEOIPHRI, who in heaven rule the upper kingdom, MIOTHILAMPS, in heaven,
IAO, and in the kingdom under the earth, SABLENIA IAO SABLEPHDAUBEN
THANATOPOUTOER. I invoke you, BATHUMIA CHTHAORGOKORBRA
ADIANAKKAKIABANE THENNANKRA. I invoke you gods who were exposed by
Kronos, ABLANAHTALBA SISIPETRON, take over N. the opponent of me,
OEANTCHERECHER BEBALLOSSALAKAMETHE, and you, earthshaker, who holds the
keys of Hades. Carry out for me this curse!
En da y hora de Marte, en una pieza iluminada con velas negras y suffumigated por
incienso marciano, invoca a Marte entonando el Himno rfico dedicado a l.
En una tabla de cermica o barro, talla tu maldicin, producto de tu propia creacin
escrita para expresar tu objetivo, mientras lo repites vocalmente.
Cuando la tableta est completa, tmala junto con los restos de las velas y cenizas del
incienso. Adems, una cantidad de tierra de cementerio suficiente para cubrir la superficie
de la tableta, y llvalas al lugar que elegiste de forma que nada quede expuesto.
Cava un hoyo de 9 pulgadas. Coloca la tableta, velas y las cenizas en el agujero, y cubre
toda la superficie con la tierra de cementerio.
Lentamente, comienza a llenar la "tumba", mientras recitas la encantacin:
Daimones bajo la tierra y daimones quienes quieran que sean, ustedes que descansan
aqu, ya que
