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This Neo-Assyrian text contains a magic spell to make a baby sleep:

"Belch like a drunkard, snort like a baby gazelle, until your mother comes, strokes you, and picks you up."

From the oldest surviving royal library in the world, the Library of Ashurbanipal, King of Assyria (668-around 630 BC).

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