![]() Other traditional flying ointment herbs that were added to the brew included opium poppy, water hemlock, monkshood, and foxglove, wormwood and yes, even Cannabis! The special Flying ointment was made from a base like animal fat or beeswax and plants from the Solanaceae family plants like: belladonna, datura, henbane, and mandrake. When flying ointment shows back up with the Witch’s, the broom adds to the story…įor all the Witch’s across the land that wanted to meet on prearranged nights, the witches would brew a special Flying ointment… From Golden Ass, Book III, Chapter Sixteen (160 AD) Then she cried and screeched like a bird of that kind, and willing to prove her force, moved her self from the ground by little and little, til at last she flew quite away.” And when midnight came she led me softly into a high chamber, and bid me look through the chink of a door: where first I saw how she put off all her garments, and took out of a certain coffer sundry kinds of boxes, of the which she opened one, and tempered the ointment therein with her fingers, and then rubbed her body therewith from the sole of the foot to the crown of the head, and when she had spoken privily with her self, having the candle in her hand, she shaked parts of her body, and behold, I perceived a plume of feathers did burgen out, her nose waxed crooked and hard, her nails turned into claws, and so she became an owl. Wherefore she willed me privily to prepare myself to see the same. “On a day Fotis came running to me in great fear, and said that her mistress, to work her sorceries on such as she loved, intended the night following to transform herself into a bird, and to fly whither she pleased. Augustine referred to as “The Golden Ass” originally written between 159-180 AD.Īlbert Joseph Pénot, “Départ pour le Sabbat” (1910) The first mention of such a flying ointment can be found in the only surviving ancient Roman Novel written in Latin to survive the years “The Metamorphoses of Apuleius” which St. In the old days, Finding a way for witch’s to meet together with miles in between would sound like a insurmountable feat… That is if it weren’t for a witch’s trusty broom and some Flying Ointment… Witches going to their Sabbath (1878), by Luis Ricardo Falero The Witch & her trusty Broom…, a vehicle to travel the nights skies illustrated for centuries to follow?… Well kind of, but the truth is amazingly better then history will let you know… Legends long past but with a couple “All though’s” to the history to deserve a slow clap from all time travelers alike. ![]() – Reginald Scot’s book, The Discoverie of Witchcraft, published in 1584 “At these magical assemblies, the witches never failed to dance and in their dance they sing these words, ‘Har, har, divell divell, dance here dance here, plaie here plaie here, Sabbath, Sabbath.’ And whiles they sing and dance, ever one hath a broom in her hand, and holdeth it up aloft.”
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