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grbs-1891	Wortley, john	Some Light on Magic and Magicians in Late Antiquity	2001	19	.pdf	application/pdf	7455	331	69	They might have some connection with ancient Egyptian religious folklore, but this is as yet by no means certain.3 They seem to have sprung into existence with Christian monachism itself for they were already circulating (in Coptic most likely) when the earliest collectors of monastic lore published Greek translations of some of the lore they had picked up during their travels in Egypt.4 Many more tales were garnered into the great collections of “Sayings of the Fathers” (ÉApofy°gmata Pat°rvn) made by the Egyptian monks themselves (at Scêtê) in the sixth century5 while in the seventh century John Moschos’ Leim!n/Pratum Spirituale and the tales attributed to Anastasius the Sinaïte saw the light of day, both collections indicating that tales were emerging in 3 See J. Wortley, “Death, Judgement, Heaven and Hell in Byzantine ‘Beneficial Tales,’” DOP 59 (2001) 53–69, at 63–64. Coislin 126 with French translation of tales 1–215); critical edition (partial): Les Apophtegmes des Pères, Collection systématique, chapitres I–IX , ed. J.-C. Guy and Bernard Flusin (SC 387 [Paris 1993, two vols.	cache/grbs-1891.pdf	txt/grbs-1891.txt