The Witches' Ointment: the Secret History of Psychedelic Magic

✍ Scribed by Thomas Hatsis

• Publisher: Inner Traditions / Bear & Company; Inner Traditions International, Limited
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 267 KB
• Category: Fiction
• City: Rochester
• ISBN: 1620554747

✦ Synopsis

COVER IMAGE; TITLE PAGE; EPIGRAPH; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; TABLE OF CONTENTS; FOREWORD BY EDWARD BEVER, PH. D.; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 1: HELEN'S TEARS; A SIMPLE SORCERER; QUINTILIAN'S QUESTION; THE TRIAL OF MUMMOLUS; CHAPTER 2: IN THE SILENCE OF DEEPEST NIGHT; NIGHT DOINGS; THE HEAD OF JOHN THE BAPTIST; WOMEN THAT WALK AMONG THE DEAD; THE SOCIETY OF THE GOOD WOMEN OF THE NIGHT; THE MIRACLE OF THE BONES; AFTER THE MANNER OF PAGANS; CHAPTER 3: THE HERETICS' POTION; HUMAN ERROR; THE LAMP THAT SHINES IN DARKNESS; THE POOR OF CHRIST; GNOSTIC SORCERY; HEAVENLY FOOD; BILIA'S BREW; TREGENDA;In the medieval period preparations with hallucinogenic herbs were part of folk remedies but the Church demonized these practices creating the classical ""witch"" stereotype and what history has called the ""witches' ointment."" This book presents dozens of these psychoactive formulas gleaned from rare manuscripts all over the world including spells, love potions, and herbal preparations.

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