Spells and Amulets. 

 Amulets
Amulets were worn by both the dead and the living. For the dead, they helped to protect them on their way to the afterlife.The amulets were often in the shape of animals, plants, sacred objects, or hieroglyphic symbols. The combination of shape, color and material were important to the effectiveness of an amulet.
One of the most widely worn protective amulets was the wedjat eye: the restored eye of Horus. It was worn by the living, and often appeared on rings and as an element of necklaces. It was also placed on the body of the deceased during the mummification process to protect the incision through which the internal organs were removed.
The scarab (beetle) was an important funerary amulet, associated with rebirth, and the heart scarab amulet prevented the heart from speaking out against the deceased. 
One of the most important amulets would be the Egyptian Ankh which was the symbol of eternal life, in Egyptian paintings mainly in tombs the gods of the afterlife are seen wearing or holding the Ankh.   
I have chosen this topic on Spells and Amulets because in the Egyptian Afterlife they needed these amulets to help guard them on there way to the afterlife.

Spells
Spells were mainly used from the Book Of the Dead. The Book of the Dead is an ancient Egyptian funerary text, used from the beginning of the New Kingdom (around 1550 BCE, 'Before the Common Era') to around 50 BCE. The original Egyptian name for the text is translated as "Book of Coming Forth by Day".

Unfortunately in the Old Kingdom before the Middle Kingdom of Egypt, it was only Pharaohs allowed to have a piece of the Book of the Dead in their sarcophagus. Happily things turned around for the people of Egypt, they were no longer to be buried in deshret or red land, they were declared to have proper funeral rites.

the images represent the wedjat eye, the ankh with the Egyptian Goddess, Hathor, Horus' wife and the scarab beetle


I have chosen this topic because it represents the afterlife, it shows what kind of things the ancient Egyptians believed in and how important it was to them. I chose Pamela Bradley because she is a historian who has studied Egypt for a very long time and I believe that this topic is a great choice for clients and the book has a lot od information on spells and amulets why they were worn, who wore them and she focuses a lot around these types of questions, and these questions that she focuses around makes you understand so much about the Egyptian way of life in such simple terms so if your audience doesn't understand much about Egypt they will be able to.

The photo's were from my pinterest account

Bradley, P 1999, Ancient Egypt: Reconstructing the Past, Cambridge University Press, Port Melbourne, Australia.