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"It is not enough to have broken the spell of Aharon," said Ennana; "I shall repeat it." Ennana waved his wand in the opposite direction and muttered the contrary formula. Immediately the frogs reappeared in greater numbers than before, leaping and croaking.
Ennana nodded briefly, like an impartial expert who does justice to the skill of a colleague; he considered the enchantment was well wrought for one who had not had, like himself, the opportunity of studying wisdom in the mysterious chambers of the labyrinth, where a very few of the initiated can alone enter, so trying are the tests which have to be undergone.
Let us go back, for life is short, and the wise man has scarce time to tell to another the word which he has learned. Let us go back to our laboratories. The merest juggler, the first charmer of serpents who plays the flute on the public squares, will suffice to satisfy you." "Ennana, do what I wish," said the Pharaoh to the chief of the wise men and the magicians.
Old Ennana turned towards the band of sages, who remained standing motionless, their minds already lost again in deep meditations. "Cast down every man your rod as you whisper the magic word." The rods fell together with a sharp sound upon the stone slabs, and the wise men resumed their perpendicular attitude like the statues placed against the pillars of the tombs.
Mosche stretched forth his hand, and Aharon's serpent glided towards the twenty-four reptiles. The struggle was not long; it soon had swallowed the hideous things, real or seeming creations of the wise men of Egypt. Then it resumed its former wand shape. This result seemed to amaze Ennana.
Ennana, having been summoned, was sunk in thought; his finger, placed upon his bald brow, his eyes half-closed, he seemed to be seeking within his memory for a forgotten magic formula. The Pharaoh, somewhat uneasy, turned towards him. "Well, Ennana, have you lost your mind by dint of thought? Is this wonder beyond the reach of your wisdom?"
The canals, the fish-ponds, and the pools had all turned the same colour, and the vessels full of water were red like the basins in which the blood of victims is collected. The Pharaoh was not astonished at the wonder, and said to the Hebrews, "This miracle might terrify a credulous and ignorant people, but it has nothing surprising for me. Let Ennana and the wise men come.
They will repeat this enchantment." The wise men came, led by their chief. Ennana cast a glance on the river and its purple waves, and saw at once what was the matter. "Restore things to their primitive condition," he said to Mosche's companion; "I will repeat your wonder." Aharon again smote the stream, which at once resumed its natural colour.
Then was let loose upon Egypt a multitude of scourges and plagues. A fierce warfare was waged between the wise men and the two Hebrews whose wonders they reproduced. Mosche changed all the dust in Egypt into lice; Ennana did the same.
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