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fevers, blood flowing, and all griefs it will mitigate.
fevers, blood flowing, and all griefs it will mitigate.
and the battles of all demons it keeps off.
and the battles of all demons it keeps off.
[KD: I'm a little uncertain about that last line, as pugna cannot agree with omnia in normative Latin. The only solutions I see are to accept that the Latin is faulty (always a possibility) or to translate it as "it keeps off all the things of demons with battle," taking pugna as an Ablative.  But I am far from certain.]

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Translation: This figure brought the Angel of the Lord to Daniel when he sat tied up in the lions' pit ; and he said to him (?): This is a 'drawing' [picture, figure, drawn map] of (from) the Highest God; when you will have looked at it, to you no harm shall come.

Write this figure on virgin parchments with the blood of a virgin lamb; now smoke it (?). [I believe this advises to burn the parchment, as flame is said to release powers] Its powers are: chains and fetters it breaks, a sword shall not pierce the skin, enemies it drives away; fevers, blood flowing, and all griefs it will mitigate. and the battles of all demons it keeps off.


[KD: I'm a little uncertain about that last line, as pugna cannot agree with omnia in normative Latin. The only solutions I see are to accept that the Latin is faulty (always a possibility) or to translate it as "it keeps off all the things of demons with battle," taking pugna as an Ablative. But I am far from certain.]