ages, necromancers violated tombs, composed philtres and
unguents with the fat and blood of corpses combined with
aconite, belladonna, and poisonous fungi; they boiled and
skimmed these frightful compounds over fires nourished with
human bones
unguents with the fat and blood of corpses combined with
aconite, belladonna, and poisonous fungi; they boiled and
skimmed these frightful compounds over fires nourished with
human bones
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and crucifixes stolen from churches; they
added dust of dried toads and ash of consecrated hosts ;
they anointed their temples, hands, and breasts with the
infernal unguent, traced the diabolical pentacles, evoked the
dead beneath gibbets or in deserted graveyards.
added dust of dried toads and ash of consecrated hosts ;
they anointed their temples, hands, and breasts with the
infernal unguent, traced the diabolical pentacles, evoked the
dead beneath gibbets or in deserted graveyards.
Their
bowlings were heard from afar, and belated travellers
imagined that legions of phantoms rose out of the earth ;
the very trees, in their eyes, assumed appalling shapes ; fiery
orbs gleamed in the thickets ;
bowlings were heard from afar, and belated travellers
imagined that legions of phantoms rose out of the earth ;
the very trees, in their eyes, assumed appalling shapes ; fiery
orbs gleamed in the thickets ;
frogs in the marshes seemed
to echo mysterious words of the Sabbath with croaking
voices. It was the magnetism of hallucination, the con-
tagion of madness.
Eliphas Levi
to echo mysterious words of the Sabbath with croaking
voices. It was the magnetism of hallucination, the con-
tagion of madness.
Eliphas Levi
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