But, again, that's not the end of the prayer, the prayer ends with the word "maria" and what follows appears to be a recipe.
As I argue above, he may have blindly copied the spell from elsewhere without understanding of what it means (or once meant), and abia maria would be no more to him than a usual "ave maria" component of such charms. He would not perceive it as his personal prayer.
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The dotted line may be more complicated than it looks at a glance, I've shown to the right what I mean.
Or, I think, in fact it's been thus:
As I argue above, he may have blindly copied the spell from elsewhere without understanding of what it means (or once meant), and abia maria would be no more to him than a usual "ave maria" component of such charms. He would not perceive it as his personal prayer.
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The dotted line may be more complicated than it looks at a glance, I've shown to the right what I mean.
Or, I think, in fact it's been thus: