Las tres llaves y Los huevos sin sal: Versiones hispanocristianas y sefardíes de dos ensalmos mágicos tradicionales

Abstract

The Three Keys and The Eggs Without Salt are two poetic formulae inserted in a range of religious and magical prayers and charms registered in the folk tradition of Spain and which survive in several Sephardic oriental communities. The comparison of these two formulae provides us with an ideal opportunity to analyse the poetic and ideological links between two traditions that, despite their religious differences, geographical and historical distances, have maintained a common oral heritage throughout the past centuries.