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Indispensable invisibility spell: Take fat or an eye of a nightowl and a ball of dung rolled by a beetle and oil of an unripe olive and grind them all together until smooth, and smear your whole / body with it and say to Helios: "I adjure you by your great name, BORKE PHOIOUR IO ZIZIA APARXEOUCH THYTHE LAILAM AAAAAA IIIII OOOO IEO IEO IEO IEO IEO IEO NAUNAX AI AI AEOAEO EAO," and moisten it and say in addition: "Make me invisible, lord Helios, AEO OAE EIE EAO, / in the presence of any man until sunset, IO IO O PHRIXRIZO EOA."
PGM I.222-31, as translated by E.N. O'Neil

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kristina:

might there be one for making 50 bad undergraduate papers disappear?

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