Maqlû
The Maqlû, “burning,” series is an Akkadian incantation text which concerns the performance of a rather lengthy anti-witchcraft, or kišpū, ritual. In its mature form, probably composed in the early first millennium BC, it comprises eight tablets of nearly a hundred incantations and a ritual tablet, giving incipits and directions for the ceremony. This was performed over the course of a single night in the month of Abu (July/August) when the perambulations of the spirits to and from the netherworld made them especially vulnerable to its spells. It was the subject of a letter from the exorcist Nabû-nādin-šumi and the Assyrian king Esarhaddon. It seems to have evolved from an earlier short-form with only ten incantations to be performed in a morning ceremony, whose first incantation begins: Šamaš annûtu șalmū ēpišiya (“O Shamash, these are the figurines of my sorcerer”).
The ritual
The manifestation of witchcraft could take many forms, such as “the grip of the mountain, be it the epilepsy, the offspring of Šulpaea.” The incantations are divided into three sequences, d during the first of which figurines of the sorcerer were burned, drowned in black liquid and finally placed face down on the ground and crushed while the first four tablets were recited.
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Oh, Mickey, you're so fine
You're so fine, you blow my mind
Hey, Mickey, hey, Mickey
Oh, Mickey, you're so fine
You're so fine, you blow my mind
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Oh, Mickey, you're so pretty, can't you understand?
It's guys like you, Mickey
And what you do, Mickey, do, Mickey
Don't break my heart, Mickey
Oh, Mickey, you're so fine
You're so fine, you blow my mind
Hey, Mickey, hey, Mickey
Oh, Mickey, you're so fine
You're so fine, you blow my mind
Hey, Mickey, hey, Mickey
Oh, Mickey, you're so fine
You're so fine, you blow my mind
Hey, Mickey
Oh, Mickey, what a pity you don't understand
You take me by the heart and you take me by the hand
Oh, Mickey, you're so pretty, can't you understand?
It's guys like you, Mickey
And what you do, Mickey, do, Mickey
Don't break my heart, Mickey
Oh, Mickey, what a pity you don't understand
You take me by the heart and you take me by the hand
Oh, Mickey, you're so pretty, can't you understand?
It's guys like you, Mickey
And what you do, Mickey, do, Mickey
Don't break my heart, Mickey
Oh, Mickey, you're so fine
You're so fine, you blow my mind
Hey, Mickey, hey, Mickey
Oh, Mickey, you're so fine
You're so fine, you blow my mind