Budge_Ethiopic_Alexander

THE MAGIC OF THE EGYPTIANS. XVII
know of the ideas which underlay the use of waxen
figures by the Egyptians and Greeks, it is clear
that, in providing Alexander with these models
and the formulae to use with them, Aristotle be-
lieved that he was giving him the means of making
his enemies to become powerless to attack him.
But the power of the magic of Nectanebus wasA hawk be-
not exhausted when he had sent to Olympias the Nectanebus.
dream which has been described above. When
the queen discovered that she was with child she
was greatly afraid, and to quiet her fears Necta-
nebus sent a dream to Philip also, in which he
made known to him what had happened to his
wife. To do this he took a sea-hawk and having
bewitched it, he made it to fly through the night
to the place where Philip was, and that which
Nectanebus had told it to say to Philip in a dream
the hawk said. In his dream Philip saw his wife
united to the god Ammon, and when he had left
her Philip saw him tie her up with a papyrus
string and seal her with a gold ring having a bezel
inscribed with the sun, and below it were the head
of a lion and a spear. That Nectanebus could be-
witch the hawk is only what we should expect,
and the story of the hawk being able to talk is
not to be wondered at as the product of a country
where a cow warned a younger brother that his
elder brother was standing behind the door of the
stable with his dagger in his hand, waiting to slay
him.' In another Egyptian story a crocodile makes
' D'Orbiney Papyrus, p. v. 1. 8.