Case file · Folklore / legend
The magician Djedi
The Westcar Papyrus, copied in the 17th–16th century BCE, tells how a 110-year-old magician named Djedi was brought before Khufu and put back the severed heads of a goose and an ox.
1,650 BCE · 29.39, 31.16 · status: legend
The account
He refused to try it on a prisoner, and then prophesied the birth of the kings of the next dynasty.