It may come as a surprise to some readers, and perhaps even to some trained Assyriologists, to learn that at some point in the 13th century bc, a few adventurous Ugaritic scribes experimented with writing Akkadian magical texts in the local cuneiform alphabet. This chapter presents a survey of this intriguing dossier, retracing major advances in the history of its study and highlighting those (considerable) interpretational problems which remain.