ashipu

plural ashipus · alternative āshipu · alternative asipu · alternative āšipu

1. historicalA magical healer in ancient Mesopotamia.

   Virtually all the evidence that we possess for the practice of Mesopotamian magic consists of the records amassed by and for the āshipu […]

   2017, Ronald Hutton, The Witch, Yale University Press, published 2018, page 49

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   Whatever the patient's requirements, however, the āšipu is unlikely to have had time to acquire more than a basic working knowledge of the medicaments which he was attempting to use.

   1999, JoAnn Scurlock, edited by Abusch & van der Toorn, Mesopotamian Magic, page 79

   The average Mesopotamian believed the cause of stomachaches, headaches, and other mysterious aches was a demon in the body. The remedy was to call an ashipu for a cure.

   2010, Barbara A Somervill, Empires of Ancient Mesopotamia, page 120