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and cover it. Dig a hole in soft ground three and a half
cubits deep. Put the mixture in the bottom of the hole and
fill the hole with donkey urine and leave it for an hour till
the ground absorbs the urine, then cover it very well with
dirt and leave it there for forty-nine days. Then take out
the mixture and open it and you will find an animal in the
shape of a fish that has two wings like a bat and two
goggled eyes like the crabs eyes and two hands that have
five fingers in each and a bottom like the tail of a fish. Do
not hold it with hands, leave it in the container for one to
three hours in the sun as it will die during that time and
you will know it is dead when it stops moving. Leave it in
the container and cover the lid and leave it there for seven
days without touching it. When you open it after seven
days you will find that it has split into pieces and mat is a
sign of attainment and awareness of the purpose of
making it. Then Sokolonya mentioned a couple of the
functions that this mixture is capable of doing and he said
that if you go to a wide open deserted area or on top of a
mountain at a time during the day where you can see the
planets and the sun in the sky and take with you a brazier
with coal and a small part of this animal without touching
it and with the use of an iron hook put it in a container.
Then add to it dried Kotrop plant and mandrake and put it
on the brazier till the smoke rises to the sky. Add some
bull's gallbladder and some of gladiolus tree to the
mixture. As the smoke starts rising to the sky from the
brazier a huge noise and fearful roar will erupt, that
people will be able to hear for miles away and that horrible
noise will continue as long as the smoke rises up in the
sky. Then as the smoke dies out the planets will disappear
to the visible eye one after the other just as the noise will
fade slowly.