ጸሎት (Prayers and Incantations — Ethiopian magic manuscript)

They rose, and you comforted them. Likewise, send your hand, and heal the new [illness]. In hunger they will eat, and they will become leaders. In his holiness, they will be gathered. A dog will bite; his time is 20 years. In the cycle of Mark, they will be gathered. If he is sick, his remedy and his cure is in hunger and cold. He will be for the thief [as] tares a type of weed/corruption and a helper. Like a seal, he will live by the will of God. If a man is foolish, he will sin against the dead, and he will kill, and he will disturb, for the Kinbela a specific spirit or affliction is swallowed; for the living, he will teach.

And after him, he will read in the standing?... in the standing, evil... and his growth in 28 and 9 years on a Wednesday. And he will suffer in the darkness, which does not change the year. Our tree will be cut. His witchcraft is this: like a snare, he who sits as a Gange a type of malevolent spirit will stir; he who sits in the grave, the Gange will suffer and eat his stomach, [itches], he will go out, he will disturb them. The rain, every time, search for it. If he is sick, he will write an amulet, and the new kakah an amulet or charm in 60 years, [he will be] 9 in 38 years, he will suffer.