Arise ye great gods, hear my complaint; Grant me justice, take cognizance of my condition. I have made an image of my sorcerer and sorceress; I have humbled myself before you and bring to you my cause Because of the evil they (_i.e._, the witches) have done, Of the impure things which they have handled,[384] May she[385] die! Let me live! May her charm, her witchcraft, her sorcery (?) be broken. May the plucked sprig (?) of the _binu_ tree purify me. May it release me; may the evil odor[386] of my mouth be scattered to the winds. May the _mashtakal_ herb[387] which fills the earth cleanse me. Before you let me shine like the _kankal_ herb. Let me be as brilliant and pure as the _lardu_ herb. The charm of the sorceress is evil; May her words return to her mouth,[388] her tongue be cut off. Because of her witchcraft, may the gods of night smite her, The three watches of the night[389] break her evil charm. May her mouth be wax[390] (?), her tongue honey. May the word causing my misfortune that she has spoken dissolve like wax (?). May the charm that she has wound up melt like honey, So that her magic knot be cut in twain, her work destroyed, All her words scattered across the plains By the order that the gods have given. The section closes with the ordinary request of the exorciser to the victim: "Recite this incantation." It will be seen how closely the principle of sympathetic magic is followed. The individual having been bewitched by means of certain herbs concocted probably into potions, other herbs are prepared by the exorciser as an antidote. The emphasis laid upon purification, too, is noteworthy. There are numerous synonyms employed for which it is difficult to find the adequate equivalent in English. The terms reach out beyond the literal to the symbolical purification. The victim wishes to become pure, cleansed of all impurities, so that he may be resplendent as the gods are pure, brilliant, and glorious, pure as the water, brilliant and glorious as the fire. The length of the formulas varies. Often they consist only of a few lines. So the one immediately following appeals to Gilgamesh in these words: Earth, Earth, Earth, Gilgamesh is the master of your witchcraft. What you have done, I know; What I do, you know not. All the mischief wrought by my sorceresses is destroyed, dissolved-- is gone.