Wicca, Wiccan Magick, Witchcraft, and Magic Spells

In reference to witchcraft spells and potions, one of the most common attributes of the accused witches was their supposed ability to fly long distances. Although still Kramer and Sprenger in the Malleus Maleficarum admitted some witches imagine attending the Sabbath, many insisted witches actually were transported bodily. However, even a witch who has attended a Sabbat only in his imagination sees what is happening as reliable as that one body is transported."

Ironically, an ancient document called Canon Episcopia states that people who believe that witches can fly through the night are heretics:

Some wicked women, perverted by Satan, seduced by illusions of demons and ghosts, [who] believe and profess themselves in the hours of the night to travel to certain animals with Diana, the goddess of the pagans, and an innumerable multitude of women, and in the silence of the darkness of night to traverse great spaces of land and obey his orders as his lover and to be summoned to serve on some nights.

A 12-century tract of unknown author also says: "Some women turn to Satan, believe and confess that in the evening hours, walk with the pagan goddess Diana, or with Herodias and Minerva and endless train of women and obey their commands. crassly But you are foolish to believe that these acts, which are imaginative, actually occur."
It was not until the fifteenth century that the Canon Episcopia reversed. It is now a crime to deny witches heretic could transport themselves both in body and spirit.

Once the reality of the trip had been established, it was possible to each question on the witch confessed to others that were in the Sabbat. Torture applied at this time ensures that a breeder reaction would take place. As in the advanced model atomic furnaces, each witch burned automatically to two or more candidates for recording. To help make the system work smoothly, there were additional improvements. The costs were kept to compel the witch of the family to pay the bill for the services of the torturers and executioners. The family also charged the cost of the bassoons and the banquet held by the judges after the burn. Considerable enthusiasm for the game witches could be built among local officials, as they were empowered to confiscate all the assets of any person convicted of witchcraft.

Witnesses were found more frequently than allegations of fast-moving or invisible. The witch would be seen as onle left, only to turn several miles away without passing on the road. witches linked a belief that he knew too much about other people's business, reporting secrets they could not have known or overhearing conversations away. However, in England, a little flight was the confession of witches. The acts of witchcraft 1542-1736 "outlawed many practices of witchcraft, but does not prohibit flight."

A number of written accounts that exist about the use of witchcraft spells and potionss and unguents that allow a witch flying.

These include,"'The Book of Sacred Magic Abremelin El Mago' by Abraham the Jew, and 'Miraculis De Rerum Naturalium', by Giovanni Battista Porta. In the account of Abraham the Jew, he is provided an witchcraft spells and potions for a couple who, after rubbing in the Witch of the main thrusts of the feet and hands, creating a sensation of flight. Porta's account has a section entitled 'Laiarum witchcraft spells and potions "," witches Unguents "described in this recipe of flying witchcraft spells and potionss.

European witches were commonly associated with the use of magical witchcraft spells and potionss, salves and oils. Call witches unguents to anoint with these before taking to the air on their brooms. One seventeenth-century English witch confessed that "before they are put to their meetings, and to anoint the forehead with his hand and wrist a OYL brings the Spirit." Other English witches Green said that the oil was applied with a feather on the forehead. Some are believed to apply the witchcraft spells and potions to their armpits.

In the case of Alice Kettle, a 14th century Irish and witches, that "a greased staff, and ambled to the bottom gallopped Thicke and thin". A fifteenth-century source says, "They anoint a personal journey and in it ... or anoint themselves under the arms and elsewhere furry". And another source, we find that "witches, men and women who have pact with the devil, anointing with certain unguents and reciting certain words are taken at night to distant lands".

Develop an witchcraft spells and potions described in Gazariorum Errors:

Take a red-haired man known for being a good Catholic, take off your clothes, tie him on a bench so that it is unable to move, and then let loose poisonous animals in it. When expiration of their bites and stings, hang the body upside down and place a bowl under his head and mouth. Let the fall of distillation the body trapped in the cup. Mix these with the fat of a hanged man, the entrails of children, and the bodies of the poisonous creatures that had been used to effect the disappearance of the victim. The use of salves and powders are so many acquired. For stains on sticks or brooms, which makes an object capable of withstanding a flight or a anoints the body with the same purpose.

A coal burner French learned of his wife apparently went to a Sabbath, and he wanted to go too. One night, slepping which pretended to be his wife while she rubbed with an witchcraft spells and potions. Then disappeared up the chimney. He anointed himself in a similar way and was taken to the cellar of an old mansion. There he met his wife met with the Sabbat. "His wife immediately made a secret signal, and all missing from the company. The coal burner was left alone in the depths of the cellar, where he was found by the people of the house, leading him by a thief. I had more difficult to leave a very bad scrape.

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These green "Oyls" usually contain a mixture of herbs, some of which are highly toxic (Warning: do not experiment with these - a bit of sap in a cut can kill).

Some common ingredients are:

Almond oil
Blood Bat
Belladonna
Cinquefoil
Datura
Belladona
Foxglove
Cicuta
Henbane
Mandrake
Monkshood
Parsley
Alamo
Amapola
Smallage
Soot
Sweet Flag
Toad stool
Water lilies
Wild celery

Some of the ingredients such as almond oil, soot, and parsley are evidently inert. Many of the earliest known flying witchcraft spells and potions contain nothing but the inert ingredients, and applied to the witch or a broomstick instead of directly to your body. These witchcraft spells and potions "probably should be considered harmless, whether products or folklore demonological theory, and not as effective mind-altering substances."

Many of the ingredients contain poisonous atropine or tropane, a highly toxic white crystalline alkaloid. In medicine, atropine is used to relieve spasms, to diminsh secretions for dilating the pupil of the eye, and to relieve pain. However, when a potion containing atropine rubbed on the skin, may produce life like dreams, illusions, and emotion.

Other poisons, in particular those of the potato family, also contain a toxic alkaloid called solanine. "Potatoes exposed to light before harvest to turn green, a sign of the presence of a toxic alkaloid called solanine. If ingested, solanine can cause symptoms such as headaches, vomiting, diarrhea, fever, apathy , agitation, confusion and hallucinations. Other potato plants in the family produce compounds called tropanes, who are responsible for the hallucinogenic properties of solanaceous plants in the Old and New Worlds."

The fat of children could be used to help atropine/solanine to pass through the skin and enter the bloodstream. "The process could be accelerated by the application of the witchcraft spells and potions on the genitals and/or anus, where the rich supply of blood vessels readily absorbed compounds hallucinogens .... Sometimes, using a witches agent of the ash wood witchcraft spells and potions to apply to themselves, but because it was witchcraft against the law ... the staff often disguised as a broomstick".

The use of the broom or staff is certainly more than a symbolic Freudian act, serving as an applicator of atropine-containing plant to the sensitive vaginal membranes, and the suggestion of riding on a horse, a typical illusion of witches trip to the Sabbat.
Experimental Drugs

The formulas for the atropine-containing drugs have been the subject of numerous experiments.

Andrés Laguna, a sixteenth-century medical practice in Lorraine, described the discovery of a witch jar "filled with half a green anointing with witchcraft spells and potions ... that they were: whose odor was so strong and offensive showing that it was composed of herbs and cold soporiferous the last grade, which are hemlock, belladonna, henbane, and mandrake. " Laguna obtained a full canister of this witchcraft spells and potions and used it to carry out an experiment on the wife of a hangman in Metz. He anointed the woman from head to toe, so "asleep suddenly that dream with open eyes and a rabbit (also seemed a properly boiled hare), which I could not imagine how wake." Laguna when she managed to finally get up, he had been asleep for thirty-six hours. She complained: "Why am I awake at such an inopportune moment? I was surrounded by all the pleasures and delights of the world." Then smiled at her husband who was standing there, "all of the men hanged stinking," and said "Knavish one, know that I made a cuckold, and with a lover younger and better than you."

In 1992, an anonymous man took out a similar experiment. He writes, "The witchcraft spells and potions is rubbed on the pulse points of the hands and feet, after 5 minutes, a great feeling tired and cold and I slept over me, my breathing slow and I began to feel a little panicked that I would die without However, convinced that if I did go into respiratory collapse or heart failure that had left instructions with a friend who attended allowed me to provide artificial respiration and call an ambulance. My understanding of time became impossible so I can not decide how long they lasted my experience. Eventually I stopped being afraid and my mind seemed to be increasingly separated from its normal state, there is still a feeling of coldness seems to float upward. I found myself rising above the rooftops of London and my body was not human and has become amorphous as a giant squid with its tentacles streaming behind. With a bit of concentration that could change my body into almost any form they so wish. It seemed to be heading west and eventually reached a hillside, there I met a number of other people who informed me that the meeting not in this world, but in the stars. I immediately shot to the sky to a bright star, I was not alone and as I flew towards the star that many others were with me, our bodies seem to fuse with each other and remember the intense sensations of pleasure running up and down my body , while that was not my body, but everyone, it is difficult to describe. I finally came to a huge room and walked to its plant in cold for a flight of steps, either side of the room were huge pillars that stretched up so high I could not see a ceiling. As I reached the top of the steps I saw a hooded figure of a woman, she looked at me, though his face was hidden by the hood. I suddenly felt an incredible sense of power emanating from the woman and I became very frightened. The woman began to remove their fear through bell and I averted my eyes, a voice in my head told me to look up, I did and the woman's face shone so brightly it hurt not only me but my whole body. Then I remember a feeling of falling and can not remember anything else."

A modern researcher, who only breathe in the fumes of an witchcraft spells and potions henbane, speaks of the "feeling of madness that my feet were growing lighter, and the extension to break loose from my body ... at the same time I experienced a feeling heady fly."

Despite witchcraft spells and potionss many hallucinogens to account for specific characteristics of the belief in witchcraft, the Inquisition was "not involved with the identification of witches on the basis of his power of witchcraft spells and potionss." The Malleus Maleficarum has little to say about these witchcraft spells and potions. But there is another possibility.

Before 1750, health was considered a privilege of the rich, and a peasant's diet consisted mainly of dark bread. Accused of witchcraft may have been suffering from ergot poisoning rye. Ergot is a dark purple or black rye fungus that thrives in the cold and damp. Bread with only a 2% content of ergot is pink and can cause poisoning of rye ergot, which leads to hallucinations and muscle cramps, dry gangrene, and even death. The amazing aspect is the key here. LSD can be made from ergot, and accounts of witches' sabbats can certainly read it as "acid trips." These people were unknowingly experiencing the same sensations that the drug users.

It seems likely that the majority of actual users of the drugs were never identified as witches, and that most of those convicted witches unguents had never used hallucinogens.