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We have in our hands at the present time tolerably accurate copies of the exorcisms and spells which the Sumerian and his Babylonian successor employed, some six or seven thousand years ago, to avert the attacks of devils, and to ward off malign influences of every kind. The object of the two volumes which form the present work is to supply the student of Assyrian Demonology with English transliterations and translations, with the necessary notes, etc., of the documents printed in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Parts of Cuneiform Texts from Babylonian Tablets, etc., which have been recently issued by the Trustees of the British Museum. An examination of these two Parts will show that they contain copies of all the Tablets belonging to the Series UTUKKI LIMNÛTI, AŠAKKI MARSÛTI, and Ṭi'i, i.e., "Evil Spirits," "Fever Sickness," and ''Headache," which have now been identified, together with the texts of a considerable number of compositions of a similar character.