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I may add that there is authority for the magic waxen image which the
sorcerer Kaku and his accomplice used to bewitch Pharaoh. In the days of
Rameses III., over three thousand years ago, a plot was made to murder
the king in pursuance of which such images were used. "Gods of wax . .
. . . . for enfeebling the limbs of people," which were "great crimes of
death, the great abomination of the land." Also a certain "magic roll"
was brought into play which enabled its user to "employ the magic powers
of the gods."
Still, the end of these wizards was not encouraging to others, for they
were found guilty and obliged to take their own lives.
But even if I am held to have stretched the prerogative of the _Ka_,
or of the waxen image which, by the way, has survived almost to our own
time, and in West Africa, as a fetish, is still pierced with pins or
nails, I can urge in excuse that I have tried, so far as a modern may,
to reproduce something of the atmosphere and colour of Old Egypt, as
it has appeared to a traveller in that country and a student of its
records.


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