VMs: Stuff requested by Nick + more

["Petr Kazil" <kazil@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Subject: VMs: Astrological circles as volvelles...?
Any relation with "crop circles" ? Read my ghosthunting report at:
http://www.euronet.nl/users/kazil/ghosthunt.html

But now seriously:

I posted the most relevant parts of the witches brews from Flora magica on
http://pkazil.free.fr/
The book is filled with interesting details and should be copied entirely,
but on the other hand the most relevant part is the list of latin plant
names. This is the essence. I also copied the first part of the ANTI-magical
flora. The book has solid, but very dispersed references, no good. It is a
book I might consider buying.

What made me wary were the references to Eliphas Levi. I read his books as
an easily impressed adolescent and even then I thought it was crap - Gustav
Meyrink was much better :-)

Flora Diabolica is a book on "devilweeds" like "devils-foot", "devils-rope"
etc. It has no direct relation to magic, more to devil-stories. This one has
a good reference and I included it.

Then I thought "what if VMS is not about women's health but about another
forbidden subject". And I looked up a book on "abortion". It's rather
horrid, but it gives a good overview of ancient practices. Those poor women!
Another reason to make abortion more freely available so that they don't
have to go through all this ... Maybe there's some VMS relevanse, I'll leave
that to the old-timers.

Finally some very bad scans of renaissance piping technology. I couldn't
make the copies any better, but still they are interesting. Look at the
shape of the siphons! It has a VMS-feel. And those guys were advanced
indeed!

Greetings and hope I added my 2 cents at last - Petr - now also at
http://pkazil.free.fr