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…showed last 75 words of 498 total…existence for kings and nobles. Since Egyptians highly believed in an afterlife, they also believed in a magical spell that aimed at providing a substitute to set forth in a place of the dead man in case he shall be called upon to perform any menial labor in the afterlife. It occurs among the other magical spells written on rolls of papyrus deposited with the dead, but even more frequently on the small human statuettes.