{"id":731,"date":"2010-05-25T10:02:36","date_gmt":"2010-05-25T15:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weblog.larkvi.com\/?p=731"},"modified":"2010-05-25T10:02:36","modified_gmt":"2010-05-25T15:02:36","slug":"talismanic-image-demon-magic-scroll-tigray-ethiopia-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/photography\/talismanic-image-demon-magic-scroll-tigray-ethiopia-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Talismanic Image (Demon), Magic Scroll, Tigray, Ethiopia, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Talismanic Image (Demon), Magic Scroll, Tigray, Ethiopia, 2009 by larkvi, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/larkvi\/4639208788\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4050\/4639208788_907ae3bae7_o.jpg\" alt=\"Talismanic Image (Demon), Magic Scroll, Tigray, Ethiopia, 2009\" width=\"467\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An image of a demon stares out from the first panel of a magical (prayer) scroll. The image of the demon has inherent magical significance, but it also is meant to show attacking demons their own visage, and thus to scare them. A useful introduction is Jacques Mercier&#8217;s &#8216;Ethiopian Magic Scrolls,&#8217; which presents a variety of images with commentary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An image of a demon stares out from the first panel of a magical (prayer) scroll. The image of the demon has inherent magical significance, but it also is meant to show attacking demons their own visage, and thus to scare them. A useful introduction is Jacques Mercier&#8217;s &#8216;Ethiopian Magic Scrolls,&#8217; which presents a variety &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/photography\/talismanic-image-demon-magic-scroll-tigray-ethiopia-2009\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;Talismanic Image (Demon), Magic Scroll, Tigray, Ethiopia, 2009&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[32,256,287,520,884,909],"class_list":["post-731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","tag-africa","tag-demon","tag-ethiopia","tag-magic-scroll","tag-talismanic-image","tag-tigray"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}