Note 25 — Chapter I · THE ANGLO-SAXON HERBALS
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In an incantation against fever we find the instruction:—
“The sick man ... thou shalt place ... thou shalt cover his face Burn cypress and herbs ... That the great gods may remove the evil That the evil spirit may stand aside . . . . . . . May a kindly spirit a kindly genius be present.”
R. Campbell Thompson, Devils and Evil Spirits of Babylonia, p. 29. See also p. 43. Cf. also Tobit vi. 7.