was only condemned
by him when the magician wished to produce evil results. The gods
themselves were supposed to use spells and incantations, and every
traveller by land or water carried with him magical formulae which he
recited when he was in danger from the wild beasts of the desert or the
crocodile of the river and its canals. Specimens of these will be found
in the famous magical papyri in the British Museum, _e.g._ the Salt
Papyrus, the Rhind Papyrus, and the Harris Papyrus. Under this heading
may be mentioned Papyrus Sallier IV in the British Museum, which
contains a list of lucky and unlucky days. Here is a specimen of its
contents:

1st day of Hathor. The whole day is lucky. There is festival in
heaven with Ra and Hathor.

2nd day of Hathor. The whole day is lucky. The gods go out. The
goddess Uatchet comes from Tep to the gods who are in the shrine of
the bull, in order to protect the divine members.

3rd day of Hathor. The whole day is lucky.

4th day of Hathor. The whole day is unlucky. The house of the man
who goes on a voyage on that day comes to ruin.

6th day of Hathor. The whole day is unlucky. Do not light a fire in
thy house on this day, and do not look at one.

18th day of Pharmuthi. The whole day is unlucky. Do not bathe on
this day.

20th day of Pharmuthi. The whole day is unlucky. Do not work on this
day.

22nd day of Pharmuthi. The whole day is unlucky. He who is born on
this day will die on this day.

23rd day of Pharmuthi. The first two-thirds of the day are unlucky,
and the last third lucky.

XI. LEGAL DOCUMENTS.--The first legal document written in Egypt was the
will of Ra, in which he bequeathed all his property and the inheritance
of the throne of Egypt to his first-born son Horus. Tradition asserted
that this Will was preserved in the Library of the Sun-god in
Heliopolis. The inscriptions contain many allusions to the Laws of
Egypt, but no document containing any connected statement of them has
come down to us. In the great inscription of Heruemheb, the last king of
the eighteenth dynasty, a large number of good laws are given, but it
must be confessed that as a whole the administration of the Law in many
parts of Egypt must always have been very lax. Texts relating to
bequests, endowments, grants of land, &c., are very difficult to
translate, because it is well-nigh impossible to find equivalents for
Egy