<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><mads xmlns="http://www.loc.gov/mads/" xmlns:mods="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.loc.gov/mads/
mads.xsd"><authority><topic authority="http://AATesaurus.cultura.gencat.cat/aat/getty_en">magic scrolls</topic></authority><related type="broader"><topic>scrolls</topic></related><related type="broader"><topic>religious visual works</topic></related><variant type="other"><topic>magic scroll</topic></variant><variant type="other"><topic>protective scrolls</topic></variant><variant type="other"><topic>scrolls, healing</topic></variant><variant type="other"><topic>scrolls, magic</topic></variant><variant type="other"><topic>scrolls, protective</topic></variant><variant type="other"><topic>Ethiopian magic scrolls</topic></variant><variant type="other"><topic>healing scrolls</topic></variant> <note xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[ In Ethiopian culture, parchment scrolls upon which various taslismanic images and texts, often prayers, are inscribed, generally by clerics in complex rituals. Their purpose is in healing ceremonies. Sick people focus on the scroll, and enter into a healing trance by which they are cured; they may wear the scrolls for a time. The images that appear on the scrolls range from Jewish, Christian, and Islamic religious symbols, the story of King Solomon, lions, birds, and abstract talismanic patterns to the most frequently depicted symbols, large, colorfully-rendered eyes.  ]]></note></mads>