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Hammurabi's Coin - On episode No. 208 "Samantha's
Old Salem Trip" on the sitcom BEWITCHED/ABC/1964-72. Esmeralda (Alice Ghostley)
accidentally transports Samantha Stephens (Elizabeth Montgomery) back to Old
Salem, Massachusetts (with out her memory).
To save, her daughter, Endora (Agnes Moorehead)
gives her husband, Darrin (Dick Sargent) a magic silver coin minted in the
ancient days of Hammurabi to counter the spell and bring Samantha home.
To make
the coin work, Darrin needed Samantha to face to the East, place the coin on
her forehead, bow three times. and recite the magical incantation "Akmed Talu
Varsee Lupin" meaning "Good Luck" in Babylonian. To keep the coin stuck to her
head as she bowed, Darrin covered the coin with honey.
As Samantha uttered the last word of the incantation she regained her memory
and then traveled back to the 20th century. Before she left, however, Samantha
chastised the village elders of Old Salem for persecuting witches. See also
Bewitched Spells
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