This `dazzling array of age-old mysteries` (Dallas Morning News) is the first authoritative modern work on the occult practices that pervaded all aspects of life in ancient Egypt. Based on the latest archaeological discoveries, it includes everything from how to write your name in hieroglyphs to the proper way to bury a king: * A spell to drive off cockroaches * Interpreting dreams * Tools and training of magicians * Wording a letter to the dead * Curing cataracts with tortoise brains and honey * Wrapping a mummy * Recipes for magic potions and beauty creams * Explanations of amulets and pyramid power * A spell to entice a lover * A fortune-telling calendar These subjects and the many others included will appeal to everyone interested in Egyptology; magic, parapsychology, and the occult; or ancient religions and mythology. Bob Brier is a noted Egyptologist who lectures at the New School for Social Research, a parapsychologist who worked at the Institute for Parapsychology with the late J. B. Rhine, and the philosophy chairman at C. W. Post College.