Hi everybody,
Wondering if anybody here knows of any magic unique to Egyptian copts. I only know of them from Naguib Mahfouz's 'Miramar' and the excellent Lawrence Durrell's 'Alexandria Quartet'. In the latter, they're written as deeply mystical, and I know they have a lot of animistic imagery in their icons, but is there a hard and fast magical tradition among them? This is research for a potential novel, but in the non-fiction books I've read, they seem pretty orthodox. |
