Notes. Chapter Xii
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"Jewish Magic and Superstition", by Joshua Trachtenberg, [1939],
Chapter Xii
Nature And Man
1. Eleazar of Worms, Commentary on S. Yeirah, 6c; "S. as. B" 1149; "Tishbi", s. v. "bulmos;"--Gd. I, 213; \"Raziel", 15a;--"Ma. Vit." 501;--Rashi on Ps. 103:5; Ginzberg, "Legends", V, 51, n. 151; Gdemann, "Religionsgesch. Studien", Leipzig 1876, 55-63.
2. Samson of Sens on "Kilayim" VIII, 5 (the man-plant is identified with the "adne" or "abne hasadeh" of Job. 5:23, and the "Yadua", an animal employed in magic rites; Rashi, "San." 65a), repeated in "Semag", I, 39; ms. Et ayim, 991 (580 of original). See E. Fink, "MGWJ", Li (1907), 173-82; L. Ginzberg, "A. Schwarz Festschrift" (1917), 329-33 (\"Der Grundzug dieser Legende, die Pflanze, deren Berhrung Tod bringt ist jdisch und sehr alt.... Sehr jung dagegen und wahrscheinlich germanischen Ursprunges--findet sich daher nur bei den deutschfranzsischen Autoren--ist die Umwandlung der todbringenden Pflanze in einen 'vegetabilischen Menschen,' die Raschi noch unbekannt ist"; p. 331), and "Legends", V, 50, n. 148 and VI, 123, n. 720; cf. Thorndike, I, 597, 626, Ii, 142, Iii, 484, 566; Grimm, Ii, 1006 f.; Wuttke, 102-3; Frazer, "Folk-Lore in the O.T.", II, 377 ff.
3. On the "barnacle goose" see these essays in which the literature is discussed in detail: I. Lw, "Flora", IV, 347 ff.; Zimmels, "Minat Bikkurim" (Vienna 1926), 1-9; \"JE", II, 538 ff.; "JJV", Ii (1925), 349; Ginzberg, "Legends", V, 51, n. 150; cf. Jacobs, "Jews of Angevin England", 54, 92; Thorndike, I, 491, Ii, 200, 386, 464-5.
4. \"Shab." 107b; "ul." 127a; "Tos. Shab." 12a; "Rabiah", I, 327, 236; \"HaTerumah", 80b, 217, 218; \"Ma. Vit." 123, 6 (cf. G. Schlessinger, "Die altfranzsischen Wrter im Machsor Vitry", Mainz 1899, p. 35); "Raben", 60; "Responsa" of Meir of Rothenburg (Lemberg), 160; Moses Taku, "Oar Nemad", Iii, 78, 82; \"Orot adikim", 95a;--"Leket Yosher", I, 104; \"S. as. B" 1153; "Tashbe", 553; "Responsa" of ayim "Or Zarua", 146; "S. as. B" 589; "iyuni", 48a; "ochmat HaNefesh", 14e; Rashi and "Tos. Shab." 54b; "Or Zarua", II, 19a, 83.
5. \"S. as." 1471; Thorndike, Iii, 34, 238.
6. \"S. as." 44, 49, 71, 798, 1,61; \"Rabiah", I, 248, 197; \"Maharil", 44b; "Lev Tov", ch. 10, p. 102b; "Ora ayim" 608:4. Garlic, in particular, enjoyed high repute as an aphrodisiac in the ancient world; see I. Lw, op. cit., Ii, 144. \"Maharil", loc. cit., refers to "Erdpfel" (this was at the turn of the fifteenth century,
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long before potatoes were introduced in Europe) which I have translated "melons"; see Grimm, Deutsches Wrterbuch, s. v.
7. Blau. 76-7; "JE", Ix, 301; \"Rokea", 317, pp. 85a, b, 318, p. 88b; "Responsa" of Meir of Rothenburg (Cremona), 124; "Lev Tov", 101a; Isserles, "Ora ayim" 88:1. The concluding quotation is from "iyuni", 50d; see also ibid. 50e.
8. \"Nid." 38a; "S. as." 955, 1909; \"Lev Tov", 102b; "Emek Beracha", II, 52, pp. 62a-b, "Ora ayim", 240:7.
9. \"Nid." 16b; "Pes." 112b; Blau, 55, 56; \"Rokea", 317, p. 86b; "Joseph Ome", 190, 191, p. 43.
10. \"Ned." 20a; "Sheb." 18b; "S. as." 952, 1908; \"Lev Tov", 100c-d; "Mitvat HaNashim", ch. 65, 66; Grnbaum, "Jdischdeutsche Chrest.", 273-4, 276; \"iyuni", 15a.
11. \"Rokea", 317, p. 86b; "iyuni", 78a; Abrahams, "Ethical Wills", Ii, 209; \"Mitvat HaNashim", ch. 64; Gaster, "Maaseh Book", I, 242-3, Ii, 648-9; cf. "Paanea Raza", 133b; Thorndike, I, 177, Iv, 136.
12. Ginzberg, "Legends", V, 55, Vi, 206; Scheftelowitz, "AR", Xiv (1911), 376 ff.; Krauss, "MJV", Liii (1915), 20; \"Shab." 111a; Feb. 65b; "S. as." 1918;--Gaster, "Studies and Texts", Iii, 229-30; Gd. I, 216.
13. \"Nid." 31a; "Ber." 60a; "Hadar Zekenim" and "Daat Zekenim" on Ex. 1:16 and Lev. 12:2; Menaem Recanati, "Taame HaMivot", 13b. and Commentary on the Pentateuch, beg. of "Tazria; Paanea Raza", 87a; cf. Thorndike, Ii, 767.
14. \"Hadar Zekenim" on Ex. 1:16; "S. as. B" 1141; "Lev Tov", 100d; Gd. I, 212; in this last-mentioned place may be found a passage from Konrad von Megenberg which offers a striking parallel to the "signs" of Eleazar of Worms; cf. also Thorndike, I, 177, Ii, 329, 744, etc.
15. \"Maharil", 85a; ibid., 24b; cf. "Nid." 27a; Feb. 80b; Thorndike, Iii, 237, 238.
16. Hor. 13b; "S. as." 1503; "Ma. Vit." 720; "Tashbe", 287, 558; \"Maharil", 86a; "Leket Yosher", I, 45, Ii, 6, 15; \"Joseph Ome", pp. 45, 273, 343, 354; Parallels to these beliefs may be found among other peoples, cf. I. Goldziher, "Muhammedanischer Aberglaube ber Gedchtnisskraft und Vergesslichkeit, mit Parallelen aus der jdischen Litteratur, Berliner Festschrift", 131-55; Grimm, Iii, 834, 463 and n. 1; Wuttke, 315.
17. \"Ma. Vit." 720; "Tashbe" 557; "S. as. Tinyana", 11a; "Joseph Ome", 575, p. 123; Isserles, "Ora ayim" 260:1; "Emek Beracha", Ii, 53, P. 64a; "Yesh Noalin", 26a, n. 35; cf. Grnbaum, "Ges. Auf.", 423, 424; Goldziher, op. cit., 133; Lw, "Die Finger", p. xxii; "JE", Ix, 149; also "Ora ayim" 179:6.
18. \"Ma. Vit.", pp. 115-6; "Siddur Rashi", 523, p. 261; Gd. I, 53; Grunwald, "MJV", Xix (1906), 118; cf. Heller, "REJ", Lv (1908), 69 ff., and Krauss, ibid., Lvi (1908), 253-4,--\"Joseph Ome", 73, P. 17; \"Lebush" on "Ora ayim", 299: to; "Kiur Shelah", 134;--Goldziher, op. cit., 140 ff.; "HB", Vii (1864), 100, Xiv (1874), 58; I. Lw, "Die Flora der Juden", I, 203 f.
"Jewish Magic and Superstition", by Joshua Trachtenberg, [1939],
Chapter Xii
Nature And Man
1. Eleazar of Worms, Commentary on S. Yeirah, 6c; "S. as. B" 1149; "Tishbi", s. v. "bulmos;"--Gd. I, 213; \"Raziel", 15a;--"Ma. Vit." 501;--Rashi on Ps. 103:5; Ginzberg, "Legends", V, 51, n. 151; Gdemann, "Religionsgesch. Studien", Leipzig 1876, 55-63.
2. Samson of Sens on "Kilayim" VIII, 5 (the man-plant is identified with the "adne" or "abne hasadeh" of Job. 5:23, and the "Yadua", an animal employed in magic rites; Rashi, "San." 65a), repeated in "Semag", I, 39; ms. Et ayim, 991 (580 of original). See E. Fink, "MGWJ", Li (1907), 173-82; L. Ginzberg, "A. Schwarz Festschrift" (1917), 329-33 (\"Der Grundzug dieser Legende, die Pflanze, deren Berhrung Tod bringt ist jdisch und sehr alt.... Sehr jung dagegen und wahrscheinlich germanischen Ursprunges--findet sich daher nur bei den deutschfranzsischen Autoren--ist die Umwandlung der todbringenden Pflanze in einen 'vegetabilischen Menschen,' die Raschi noch unbekannt ist"; p. 331), and "Legends", V, 50, n. 148 and VI, 123, n. 720; cf. Thorndike, I, 597, 626, Ii, 142, Iii, 484, 566; Grimm, Ii, 1006 f.; Wuttke, 102-3; Frazer, "Folk-Lore in the O.T.", II, 377 ff.
3. On the "barnacle goose" see these essays in which the literature is discussed in detail: I. Lw, "Flora", IV, 347 ff.; Zimmels, "Minat Bikkurim" (Vienna 1926), 1-9; \"JE", II, 538 ff.; "JJV", Ii (1925), 349; Ginzberg, "Legends", V, 51, n. 150; cf. Jacobs, "Jews of Angevin England", 54, 92; Thorndike, I, 491, Ii, 200, 386, 464-5.
4. \"Shab." 107b; "ul." 127a; "Tos. Shab." 12a; "Rabiah", I, 327, 236; \"HaTerumah", 80b, 217, 218; \"Ma. Vit." 123, 6 (cf. G. Schlessinger, "Die altfranzsischen Wrter im Machsor Vitry", Mainz 1899, p. 35); "Raben", 60; "Responsa" of Meir of Rothenburg (Lemberg), 160; Moses Taku, "Oar Nemad", Iii, 78, 82; \"Orot adikim", 95a;--"Leket Yosher", I, 104; \"S. as. B" 1153; "Tashbe", 553; "Responsa" of ayim "Or Zarua", 146; "S. as. B" 589; "iyuni", 48a; "ochmat HaNefesh", 14e; Rashi and "Tos. Shab." 54b; "Or Zarua", II, 19a, 83.
5. \"S. as." 1471; Thorndike, Iii, 34, 238.
6. \"S. as." 44, 49, 71, 798, 1,61; \"Rabiah", I, 248, 197; \"Maharil", 44b; "Lev Tov", ch. 10, p. 102b; "Ora ayim" 608:4. Garlic, in particular, enjoyed high repute as an aphrodisiac in the ancient world; see I. Lw, op. cit., Ii, 144. \"Maharil", loc. cit., refers to "Erdpfel" (this was at the turn of the fifteenth century,
p. 303
long before potatoes were introduced in Europe) which I have translated "melons"; see Grimm, Deutsches Wrterbuch, s. v.
7. Blau. 76-7; "JE", Ix, 301; \"Rokea", 317, pp. 85a, b, 318, p. 88b; "Responsa" of Meir of Rothenburg (Cremona), 124; "Lev Tov", 101a; Isserles, "Ora ayim" 88:1. The concluding quotation is from "iyuni", 50d; see also ibid. 50e.
8. \"Nid." 38a; "S. as." 955, 1909; \"Lev Tov", 102b; "Emek Beracha", II, 52, pp. 62a-b, "Ora ayim", 240:7.
9. \"Nid." 16b; "Pes." 112b; Blau, 55, 56; \"Rokea", 317, p. 86b; "Joseph Ome", 190, 191, p. 43.
10. \"Ned." 20a; "Sheb." 18b; "S. as." 952, 1908; \"Lev Tov", 100c-d; "Mitvat HaNashim", ch. 65, 66; Grnbaum, "Jdischdeutsche Chrest.", 273-4, 276; \"iyuni", 15a.
11. \"Rokea", 317, p. 86b; "iyuni", 78a; Abrahams, "Ethical Wills", Ii, 209; \"Mitvat HaNashim", ch. 64; Gaster, "Maaseh Book", I, 242-3, Ii, 648-9; cf. "Paanea Raza", 133b; Thorndike, I, 177, Iv, 136.
12. Ginzberg, "Legends", V, 55, Vi, 206; Scheftelowitz, "AR", Xiv (1911), 376 ff.; Krauss, "MJV", Liii (1915), 20; \"Shab." 111a; Feb. 65b; "S. as." 1918;--Gaster, "Studies and Texts", Iii, 229-30; Gd. I, 216.
13. \"Nid." 31a; "Ber." 60a; "Hadar Zekenim" and "Daat Zekenim" on Ex. 1:16 and Lev. 12:2; Menaem Recanati, "Taame HaMivot", 13b. and Commentary on the Pentateuch, beg. of "Tazria; Paanea Raza", 87a; cf. Thorndike, Ii, 767.
14. \"Hadar Zekenim" on Ex. 1:16; "S. as. B" 1141; "Lev Tov", 100d; Gd. I, 212; in this last-mentioned place may be found a passage from Konrad von Megenberg which offers a striking parallel to the "signs" of Eleazar of Worms; cf. also Thorndike, I, 177, Ii, 329, 744, etc.
15. \"Maharil", 85a; ibid., 24b; cf. "Nid." 27a; Feb. 80b; Thorndike, Iii, 237, 238.
16. Hor. 13b; "S. as." 1503; "Ma. Vit." 720; "Tashbe", 287, 558; \"Maharil", 86a; "Leket Yosher", I, 45, Ii, 6, 15; \"Joseph Ome", pp. 45, 273, 343, 354; Parallels to these beliefs may be found among other peoples, cf. I. Goldziher, "Muhammedanischer Aberglaube ber Gedchtnisskraft und Vergesslichkeit, mit Parallelen aus der jdischen Litteratur, Berliner Festschrift", 131-55; Grimm, Iii, 834, 463 and n. 1; Wuttke, 315.
17. \"Ma. Vit." 720; "Tashbe" 557; "S. as. Tinyana", 11a; "Joseph Ome", 575, p. 123; Isserles, "Ora ayim" 260:1; "Emek Beracha", Ii, 53, P. 64a; "Yesh Noalin", 26a, n. 35; cf. Grnbaum, "Ges. Auf.", 423, 424; Goldziher, op. cit., 133; Lw, "Die Finger", p. xxii; "JE", Ix, 149; also "Ora ayim" 179:6.
18. \"Ma. Vit.", pp. 115-6; "Siddur Rashi", 523, p. 261; Gd. I, 53; Grunwald, "MJV", Xix (1906), 118; cf. Heller, "REJ", Lv (1908), 69 ff., and Krauss, ibid., Lvi (1908), 253-4,--\"Joseph Ome", 73, P. 17; \"Lebush" on "Ora ayim", 299: to; "Kiur Shelah", 134;--Goldziher, op. cit., 140 ff.; "HB", Vii (1864), 100, Xiv (1874), 58; I. Lw, "Die Flora der Juden", I, 203 f.
