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Thread #103480 Message #2108870
Posted By: Micca
22-Jul-07 - 08:23 PM
Thread Name: BS: Secrets of Witchcraft
Subject: RE: BS: Secrets of Witchcraft
The thought of you three "making spells"( should be weaving spells!) leaves me feeling downright sacred, Mary!!! On a different note the whole Witches speech (see below) It has been suggested is actually a mnemonic for the REAL ingredients!!of the spell and that old Bill may have in fact known some authentic witches
Round about the couldron go: In the poisones entrails throw. Toad,that under cold stone Days and nights has thirty-one Sweated venom sleeping got, Boil thou first in the charmed pot. Double,double toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble.
Fillet of a fenny snake, In the cauldron boil and bake; Eye of newt and toe of frog, Wool of bat and tongue of dog, Adder's fork and blindworm's sting, Lizard's leg and howlet's wing. For charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble. Double,double toil and trouble; Fire burn and couldron bubble.
Scale of dragon,tooth of wolf, Witch's mummy, maw and gulf Of the ravin'd salt-sea shark, Root of hemlock digg'd in the dark, Liver of blaspheming Jew; Gall of goat; andslips of yew silver'd in the moon's eclipse; Nose of Turk, and Tartar's lips; Finger of birth-strangled babe Ditch-deliver'd by the drab,- Make the gruel thick and slab: Add thereto a tiger's chaudron, For ingrediants of our cauldron. Double,double toil and trouble Fire burn and cauldron bubble.,