| Magick Potions are mixtures of herbal ingredients, oils | | | | Bone of Ibis - buckthorn |
| and other substances that have magickal properties. | | | | Brains - Cherry tree gum |
| In earlier times, the recipes for making such potions | | | | Bull's Foot - Coltsfoot |
| were protected from the attackers who were bent | | | | Cat - Catnip |
| on destroying magickal ways of life. To keep them | | | | Corpse candles - Mullein |
| safe, the recipes were concealed using strange code | | | | Devil's dung - Asafetida |
| words for each ingredient used. When the Greek | | | | Dragon's blood - Resin of Draco palm |
| magickal papyrus was found, many of the names | | | | Eye of Christ - Germander |
| were decoded. | | | | Eyes - inner part of any blossom |
| Dioscorides (40-90AD) was a physician in ancient | | | | Five fingers - Cinquefoil |
| Greece who wrote De Materia Medica which detailed | | | | God's hair - Hart's Tongue fern |
| all the plants and herbs that had magickal and healing | | | | Graveyard's dust - Mullein |
| properties. Around the same time or earlier, the | | | | Hawk's heart - Wormwood seed |
| Ayurveda philosophy of holistic healing was founded | | | | Kronos blood - Cedar |
| which includes meditation, yoga and herbal therapies | | | | Lion's tooth - Dandelion |
| for healing common ailments. | | | | Man's bile - Turnip sap |
| Herbal remedies were available from early times in | | | | Privates - any seed |
| most ancient cultures. When a person has a | | | | Ram's head - American Valerian |
| headache, the leaves of a local plant would be used | | | | Skull - Skullcap mushroom |
| or the roots of another would be used for a | | | | Toad - Sage |
| stomach ache. If the person had both stomach ache | | | | Tongue - Petal |
| and head ache, then a concoction of the two | | | | Urine - Dandelion |
| remedies would be made. | | | | Wing - (or paw) leaf |
| To avoid infection, this concoction may sometimes | | | | Wolf's milk - Euphorbia |
| be heated over hot coals. Hot water was used to | | | | Worms - Thin roots. |
| bathe a sick person and sometimes the water was | | | | To the people, the recipes looked very sinister. They |
| infused with therapeutic herbs, flowers or seeds. | | | | had already assumed the worst about witches and |
| Thus the potion was born. | | | | did not understand the uses of the potions or |
| Most witches were herbal healers or witch doctors. | | | | incantations. |
| They were proficient in the healing arts of the time. | | | | Potions are still used in many parts of the world to |
| As their powers grew, people from far off lands | | | | cure many illnesses. People strengthen their immune |
| would request their chants of incantations as well as | | | | systems, encourage love and affection, and induce |
| their potions to get rid of physical and mental | | | | people to marry or keep themselves in prosperity |
| illnesses. | | | | using herbal potions handed down over generations. |
| These potions were also referred to as a "mixture" | | | | Here is a Love potion for newly weds to ensure that |
| or "tincture" or "spirits" as they healed the spirits as | | | | they stay together forever: |
| well as the physical body. | | | | Steep myrtle in white wine for a few hours. The |
| Some of the code words for ingredients in these | | | | bridegroom and the bride then drinks it from one |
| potions were as follows: | | | | shared wine glass to guarantee that their romance, |
| Adder's tongue - plantain | | | | fidelity and fertility will be consecrated by Aphrodite's |
| Bat's wing - holly leaf | | | | blessings. |
| Blood - tree sap | | | | |