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Door Magic and The Epiphany Hymn 1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

K. J. McKay
Affiliation:
University of Melbourne

Extract

The existence of Otto Weinreich's excellent Türöffnung im Wunder-, Prodigienund-und Zauberglauben der Antike, des Judentums und Christentums continues to make an apology necessary for any re-examination of texts in which doors are made, or encouraged, spontaneously to open, to admit a divinity or, occasionally, to speed his departure. But what little fresh sustenance remains to be sucked from some of these well-gnawed bones may now be usefully supplemented with comment on a number of more recently suggested examples.

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Copyright © The Classical Association 1967

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