Editing Pluto (mythology) (section)

=== Magic invocations ===
The names of both Hades and Pluto appear also in the [[Greek Magical Papyri]] and [[curse tablet]]s, with Hades typically referring to the underworld as a place, and Pluto regularly invoked as the partner of Persephone.<ref>[[Hans Dieter Betz]], ''The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation'' (University of Chicago Press, 1986, 1992), [https://books.google.com/books?id=K0hCj5u3HNQC&q=hades passim]; John G. Gager, ''Curse Tablets and Binding Spells from the Ancient World'' (Oxford University Press, 1992), p. 12 (examples invoking Pluto pp. 99, 135, 143–144, 207–209) and ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=rmhw2eVJnS0C&q=hades passim]'' on Hades.</ref> Five Latin curse tablets from Rome, dating to the mid-1st century BC, promise Persephone and Pluto an offering of "[[Phoenix dactylifera|dates]], [[Common fig#Cultural aspects|figs]], and a black [[Cultural references to pigs#In religion|pig]]" if the curse is fulfilled by the desired deadline. The pig was a characteristic [[animal sacrifice]] to chthonic deities, whose [[Glossary of ancient Roman religion#victima|victims]] were almost always black or dark in color.<ref>Bolt, ''Jesus' Defeat of Death'', p. 152; John Scheid, "Sacrifices for Gods and Ancestors", in ''A Companion to Roman Religion'' (Blackwell, 2007), p. 264.</ref>

A set of curse tablets written in [[Doric Greek]] and found in a tomb addresses a Pasianax, "Lord to All,"<ref>Daniel Ogden, ''Magic, Witchcraft, and Ghosts in the Greek and Roman Worlds'' (Oxford University Press, 2002), p. 212, with English translation of the curse.</ref> sometimes taken as a title of Pluto,<ref>Gager, ''Curse Tablets'', p. 131, with translations of both tablets, and note 35.</ref> but more recently thought to be a magical name for the corpse.<ref>Derek Collins, ''Magic in the Ancient Greek World'' (Blackwell, 2008), p. 73.</ref> ''Pasianax'' is found elsewhere as an epithet of Zeus, or in the tablets may invoke a ''[[daimon]]'' like [[Abrasax]].<ref>Esther Eidinow, "Why the Athenians Began to Curse," in ''Debating the Athenian Cultural Revolution: Art, Literature, Philosophy and Politics 430–380 BC'' (Cambridge University Press, 2007), p. 50; Ogden, ''Magic, Withcraft, and Ghosts'', p. 212.</ref>