Huge collection of handwritten amulets for all subjects—Persia, North Africa, Yemen, Morocco, Iraq, Israel; 19-20th ...

Huge collection of handwritten amulets for all subjects—Persia, North Africa, Yemen, Morocco, Iraq, Israel; 19-20th centuries.
Huge collection of rare handwritten amulets, with angelic oaths, kabbalistic illustrations, and holy names. Collected from a wide variety of Mizrahi areas: Persia, North Africa, Yemen, Morocco, Iraq, Israel.

Around 60 are on parchment, for preservation and defense and many blessings: for successful negotiations (during the day and at night, in the city or the field or the market), for the bearer to be liked by those who see and hear him, to make an evil spirit go away, to remove the Evil Eye, for love and good partnership, to save a man from evil, for a wife to be loved by her husband.

A number of amulets are for remedies and health: to stop anxiety and fear, weakness of the heart/brain/lungs/blood/liver/kidneys. To save the bearer from illness or nervous diseases.

Unique amulet for the preservation of the bearer from problems (Yemenite).

A number of amulets for a pregnant woman: that the fetus be healthy and strong, that it may live a good life. That there be many sons, that there be no miscarriages, with easy births.

To open the heart, parnasa, purity of the soul, no more evil dreams.

2 mezuzot on parchment with names for preservation. Ilan HaKodesh—defective.

And another 50 folded amulets, some are closed in cases or rolled around a string and haven’t been opened, some on paper.

5 handwritten, framed amulets: “Adam” “Chava” and more, one is missing the glass. One has a handsome frame with an Ilan HaKodesh printed and rolled inside glass, from the “Stefanesht” Institutions.

Printed amulet “for preservation of the child and mother, from the Baal Shem Tov”, one framed.

Total of close to 120 amulets, some extremely rare—not checked thoroughly. Various conditions, in most of them the text is clear and readable.