When healing words : ETHIOPIAN HEALING SCROLLS . Religious archetypes chase through time and places . sacred images dear to Pagans home found among Christians , Saints and Christian Martyrs are venerated in Cuban Santeria . Some strong figures - Mother , the Unborn , the Angel come from the depths of time and take shape in different realities . This is the context of Ethiopian healing scrolls : they are talismans , and they can only make a D채bt채ras , which is Cleric of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church but may be also healer and shaman . Badly considered by Catholics , Jews and Emperors these talismans were used and venerated by the 2nd century BC until the nineteenth . Some anthropologists say that those who worshiped them were ignorant. I prefer to say that they were unpretentious people , definitely " illiterate " but not necessarily less deep . The healing scrolls are written in the ancient Ge'ez language , an indigenous Semitic language that is 2,000 years old ; Today 's religious language but at the time of ' Axumite empire was the common language . The t채ls채m served to eliminate a disease and hunt evil spirits and demons from a sick person , in the context of a larger ritual that involved the prescription of traditional herbal medicines and other natural elements associated with a " pathos" that we find in psychotherapeutic every nursing activities in any part of the world and at all times . Who would feel to say that the same person seen outside a clinical site and no coat or suit operative generates the same feeling of confidence in the potential patient ? The Ethiopian healing scrolls have an interesting set of features . Matter.