Wiara w omeny w relacjach późnoantycznych autorów chrześcijańskich
Faith in Omens in the Reports of Late Antiquity Christian Authors

Summary/Abstract: While describing the pagan practices in the everyday lives of Christians, late antique Christian authors signalize the strong dependency on good and ill omens. Records depicting factual omens that were believed to protect against misfortune and the methods used by a late antique Christian man to stay protected against evil after omen sightings, are juxtaposed above. Amulets were among the most popular protection methods used to shield one against bad luck. Obviously, the faith in omens was unacceptable to the antique Church that tried to eradicate the beliefs in the omen infallibility through acts of preaching or through a series of logical arguments that proved the uselessness of omens for all the baptized (christians) who should live by the commandments and not by signs.

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