Throat — seized breath and speech

Voice and respiration threshold

The throat marker gathers the threshold between breath, voice, and the spoken counter-spell. Its placement visualises vulnerability of utterance in an exorcistic scene, not a historical claim that one demon occupied the larynx.

Head — fever and oppressive attackFace and eyes — hostile gazeThroat — seized breath and speechThroat — seized breath and speechChest and heart — constrictionBelly — Labāṣu afflictionPelvis — generative vulnerabilityLimbs and skin — spreading disturbance

Point 3 of 7 in Mesopotamian Body Demons — Affliction Map

Cross-tradition overlaps

No overlapping points are registered for this point.

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Sources

Maqlû (The Burning) (primary_canonical)

Tablets I–VII preserve Babylonian anti-witchcraft incantations and the accompanying nocturnal burning ritual; the series documents agents, symptoms, and ritual countermeasures but does not provide a normalized anatomical chart.

Canonical Udug-hul incantations (scholarly_modern)

Edition and study of the canonical udug-hul exorcistic corpus, including its language of demonic attack, bodily distress, and the exorcist's ritual response; it is used here to distinguish textual affliction language from this editorial body projection.

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