Verbal Formula of the "Suzdal Нystera - Amulet"
The article presents an attempt to interpret "Suzdal hystera-amulet" in the context of medical practices of the Middle Ages. On the side of the amulet there are named images of the Seven youths of Ephesus and prayers for a life-giving dream and a decrease of the “fire power”. The appeals to the mediation of the Seven sleepers of Ephesus in prayers for good dream and against fever are fixed in medical Latin formulas of the Xth - XIVth centuries. The stylistic and semantic parallels of Latin formulas and Russian inscriptions on “Suzdal hystera-amulet” give reason to talk about a unified magic-medical tradition in Medieval Europe.