erbs that heal, herbs that stun, herbs that kill… a "good" witch would identify them and know how to use them. Her empirical botanical knowledge was quite reliable, which did not exclude some extrapolation: the mandrake, queen of the magic herbarium, with its surprising root resembling the human form, already stimulated fantasy before clouding the minds.

Narcotic or venenous, the witches' favourite plants deadly nightshade, henbane, or datura - could cure people… or poison them, the difference being in the dosage.

To make herself invisible and fly to a place of sabbat, the witch had to rub an ointment over her body. And with a gulp of a doutbful mixture, she was even surer… to be high!

But the… charm of this cooking lied especially in its surprising occult parameters! See for yourself from this "recipe" of the Petit Albert.
To be lucky at games of skill and chance:
Take an eel that died for lack of water, take the gall of a bull killed by fierce dogs, put it into the eel skin with a drachme of vulture blood, tie the eel skin with hanged man's rope at both ends, and leave in warm dung for fifteen days. Then dry in an oven heated with fern picked up on the eve of Midsummer Day; next make a bracelet and write on it the four letters HYTV using a raven feather and your blood. With this bracelet around your arm, fortune will smile on you everywere.

Discover the magic plants and secrets in the witches' loft.