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Written in blood? Decoding some red inks of the Greek magical papyri Blanco Cesteros, Miriam 133 29 811.14'02 magic inks code names papyri Filología griega 5101.08 Magia 5505.10 Filología 5505.09 Papirología In the procedures described within Greek magical papyri, it is common to find indications about the use of specific inks, usually characterized by the presence of peculiar substances. One such substance is blood, whose use is often interpreted in connection to the symbolic dimension of magic. A perusal of the relevant passages, however, reveals that some instances of “blood” have a different meaning. This paper analyses these formulas in the light of other sources in order to disclose the complicated network of Decknamen (code names) and to unveil the misunderstandings and erroneous inferences that have occurred in the course of their textual transmission. European Research Council (erc) Depto. de Filología Clásica Fac. de Filología TRUE pub 2024-02-05T09:38:51Z 2024-02-05T09:38:51Z 2021-02-16 book part VoR https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/98715 XXXX-XXXX 10.1163/9789004444805_004 eng Nuncius Series info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/724914/EU Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ open access application/pdf Brill