VMs: Re: "Flora Magica"...?

["Petr Kazil" <kazil@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> > > Anyone here read Flemish? :-/
> >Yup :-)
> >What would you like to have chekced?
> I think Petr's already on the case. Petr?

Well I've been a bit slow, with preparations for holiday, so haven't done
much.
But the pages that I've posted aren't so informative as they might look. I
maintain that the plant lists are the "core" information.

I'll give a quick run through of pages 21 and 22 to make the point:

21

The broomstick used for going to Sabbath was smeared with a witch-ointment,
sometimes also on other parts of the body, like the armpits or the whole
body.

Some formula's.

The 9 herb ointment contained ... the last three are poisonous and make the
mind go mad.
Te leaves of the "Donderbaard" should be harvested on thursday - a
sound-coincidence.
Notice that 9 occurs often in witchcraft.

Cardanus recipe contains the juices of ... mixed with soot. It is made even
stroger by addition of ...

Porta, a famous Italian astrologer knew a few formulae.
1) The ointment consisted of fat (child's fat) boiled with ...
2) Take says Porta ...

22

... all boiled into an ointment.

According to Knortz the ointment is made as follows:
Take a sacred host, let a toad eat it and burn the beast.
The ash is mixed with blood of an unbaptized child and certain herbs - not
mentioned - and bone meal from a hung person.

The trees from which Luxemburg witches made their ointment grew on ...

Lancelin's recipe: 100 grams of a kid (not a goat, but child in witches
jargon), haschish, opium < NB: with these ingredients anyone can fly :-) >
... boil on a soft fire for two hours. In the evening put the ointment
behind the ears, along the arteries in the neck,  ... ? ... in the armpits,
the soles of the feet and the wrists and ankles.

On page 164 he gives a dangerous recipe containing poisonous plants ...

Etc. etc. I'm quite willing to translate more, but I simply wasn't excited
enough :-)

BTW - I'm leaving for a holiday in Northern Germany for two weeks and on the
way back I hope to visit the infamous Externsteine. Postcards anyone? Be
quick, I'm leaving soon. I'll give my regards to Mr Teudt from all of us.

Greetings, Petr