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*I just wanted to note that I am very intrigued with old spells and wives tales I find in the back of old books.I have a collection of them I will share with you in my journal. Please take into consideration they are merely for amusement, and some have poisonous components.PLEASE DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME!



To Enable One To See The Fairies

Take 1 pint of virgin olive oil and wash it with rose water and marigold water until it is white. The roses and marigolds are to be gathered towards the east and the water therof to be made of pure spring water. Put the washed oil into a vial glass and add hollyhock buds,and the grass of a fairy throne*The thyme must be gathered near the side of a hill where fairies use to be. Set the glass in the sun for three days so that the ingredients can become incorporated.Then put it away for use.

-dated 1600 from Eleanour Rohde's A Garden of Herbs

*It was beleived that the area around the diameter of a mushroom cap where the soil had become exhausted was caused by the dancing of elves.The center of the circle where the original mushroom grew,where only grass remains,is the fairy throne.





Heliotrope Amulet

If one gathers the heliotrope in August and wraps it in a bay leaf with the incisor tooth from a wolf, no one can speak an angry word to the wearer.If you have been robbed , put it under your pillow and it will bring a vision before your eyes of the robber and all the items stolen. If set up in a house of worship, no woman who has committed adultery will be able to leave the place until it is removed.

-Albertus Maximus





To Cure Somebody of Drunkeness

Take the blood of an eel. Drip three drops into a bottle of wine, saying in a loud voice Astarot:then 2 more drops,saying Assaibi, and lastly another three saying Bacnoe. Then form in the air the cabalistic numbers 3,5,7; have the drunkard drink this wine, and he will not get drunk for more than a month.

-Hugh Evelyn Ltd.,London,England



To Keep the Incubus Away

Brew the following in 3 1/2 quarts of good french brandy and spring water:sweet flag,cubeb seed,aristolochia root,great and small cardamom, ginger,long pepper,clove-pink,cinnamon,clove,mace nutmegs,resin,benzoin,aloe wood and root,and santal.

-Sinistrari from The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and DemonologyR.H.Robbins





For Riding on a Broomstick

Make an ointment from the leaves of belladonna,stramonium,monkshood,and celery seeds.Add it to one toad and boil until the toad's flesh has fallen of the bones. Strain and rub the ointment on the body,under the armpits,on the forehead,and on your broom.(Eat celery seeds so that you won't get dizzy when flying about on your broom.)

-17th century formula Margaret B. Kreig

*also interesting to note that later discovered te skin of a toad has been found to have hallucinogenic properties.



To Stop Dogs From Barking at You

Carry the leaves of the hound's tongue and put them under your feet.



To Experience a Fantastic Dreamworld

Make an ointment of hemlock,opium,the juice of the monkshood,mistletoe,poplar leaves and soot.Rub all over your body.

-seventeenth-century



A Formula for Making Gold

Take the following ingredients;20 parts Platinum,20 parts silver,240 parts brass, and 120 parts nickel.Melt these seperately in seperate crucibles.When all are melted,combine them together and then pour this alloy into a mold to cool.

-Atharva Veda



Success Incense

Mix together thoroughly;35 per cent frankincense,30 per cent sandalwood,10 per cent cinnamon,10 per cent myrrh,7 per cent patchouli leaves,5 per cent orris root, and 3 per cent potassium nitrate.

-Legends of Incense,Lewis de Claremont





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