NEW! Fairytale Forest e-books: Khonsuemheb and the Ghost

One of the oldest known Ghost stories in the World is from Egypt and was written somewhere between 1189-1077 BC. The story tells about restless Ghost, whose tomb has deteriorated, and who overpriest Amun Khonsuemheb wants to prepare a new sepulcher, so that the spirit would not need to spend his nights out in the Land of the Dead anymore.

The original and still uncompleted story has been written in four potsherds (ostraka), that has been preserved in museums in Paris, Florence, Vienna, and Turin. Ostrakas were found between the years 1880-1905 in Egypt in the site of Deir el-Medina necropolis, which is located near Thebes. The beginning and end of the fragmented story are still unknown, and no one knows how the story begins or ends on this day, because not all the fragments of the story have been found.

This Autumn Fairytale Forest will publish an adaptation of the World's most ancient Ghost story, Khonsuemheb and the Ghost, that is based on the fragments of Paris, Florence, Vienna, and Turin.

According to his habit, the overpriest Amun Khonsuemheb followed the advice that had been given to him, and he ferried slowly across the nightly stream of the River Nile towards his home in the Underworld. When he got there, he caused quite a bustle, and all sorts of good things happened when he arrived.

He climbed over the rooftops of the Underworld, placed his hands around his mouth, and invoked the gods of the sky and the gods of the earth, southern, northern, western, and eastern, and the gods of the underworld, saying to them:

"Send me that august spirit, who wanders here lost and without home."

And so the spirit came and said to him:

"I am your spirit, you are calling. I am the one who has come to sleep during the night next to his tomb."

Then the High Priest of Amun Khonsuemheb said to him:

"Please tell me your name, your father's name, and your mother's name that I may offer to them and do for them all that has to be done for one in their position."

August spirit said to him:

"Nebusemekh is my name, Ankhmen is my father's name, and Tamshas is my mother's name."

Then the High Priest of Amun-Re, King of the Gods, Khonsuemheb, said to him:

"Tell me what you want so that I may have it done for you. And I shall have a sepulcher prepared anew for you and have a coffin of gold and zizyphus-wood made for you, and you shall rest, and I shall have done for you all that is done for you, all that is done for the spirit who is in your position." [...]

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Age group: 7-12-year-old and grown-ups

Illustration: Canva AI

ISBN 9789527642092

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