Picatrix by Dan Attrell & David Porreca

Author:Dan Attrell & David Porreca
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penn State University Press

Chapter 11

On the Effects of an Image upon Various Things; On the Alterations of Sight, to See Things Other Than How They Are; Also, on How to Sleep and Wake, Make Poisons, and Their Remedies

§1 I have discovered these compounds in books of this art’s sages, none of which are found in the words of Caynez.

To bind tongues lest they speak evil of you. When you want to bind tongues lest they speak evil, put together this mixture. Take the tongues of everything listed here: a crow, an eagle, a toad, a water snake, a white dove, a white cock, and a hoopoe. Grind up all these tongues, and gather them together as one. Afterward, take one grain of pearl; ½ oz. each of gold, silver, camphor, borax, and aloe. Pulverize everything, and mix them together. Then add them with the powder mentioned above, and mix the whole thing with honey. Next, put them in a white silk cloth. Then take two eyelashes from a hawk, two eyelashes from a peacock, the liver of a hoopoe, the liver of a cock, two wing bones of a dove, and two wing bones of a hoopoe. Pulverize all those things, mix them with milk, and place them in the white silk cloth mentioned above with the mixture. Afterward, make a white wax image, which you will name after yourself. Write your name and the symbol of the Sun on its head. On its chest, write your name and the symbol of the Moon. Next, wrap the image in another white silk cloth, and put it wrapped up in the middle of the abovementioned mixture. Then bind the whole thing with silk thread. Whoever carries an image thus prepared will behold wonders nor will anyone speak evil of them. They will be loved and esteemed by all.

§2 For love. Take 5 oz. of gazelle brain; 1 oz. of leopard blood; and 2 oz. of rabbit cheese. Mix everything together, and blend them very well. Give this mixture to whomever you desire in food or drink, and they will fall in love with you.

§3 For the same. Take 2 oz. of white dog’s blood and just as much of its brain; and 4 oz. each of gazelle brain and human blood. Suffumigate whomever you wish with those things blended and mixed together. That person’s spirit will feel love toward you.

§4 For the same. Take 4 oz. each of chicken blood and brains, rabbit blood, gazelle blood, and human blood. Mix and blend everything together. To these add 2 oz. of mandrake seeds. If you have suffumigated someone with these things, you will see great wonders.

§5 For the same. Take 2 oz. each of a white dove’s brain and blood and eagle blood; 1 oz. of rabbit cheese; and ½ oz. of hawk brain. Mix everything into one mass, and blend it well. Give this mixture to whomever you desire as food, and you will be loved by him.

§6 For the same. Take 1 oz. each of cock blood, leopard blood, rabbit cheese; and 2 oz.

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