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Ghayat Al-Hakim
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written a book about it and that he lived for a hundred and
eighty years after Adam his grand father died. He wrote in
his book how to prepare the animal that you can use his fat
in charms and also how to prepare the plants that you can
use its oil in making potions and he has explained all that
in long detail in his book.
Kothamy also said that there is a great effect in using
myrtle and mixing it with other ingredients that he does
not like talking about because he does not have so much
knowledge about it, but he said that the Nabataeans are
the ones that know how to use it in potion that affect
peoples souls and he said that they do that by shaping the
plant from the root and give it the shape or the figure of
the man or the woman they chose and they write their
names on it Thev add the figure of an animal with that
human and this could be a lion or snake or any other
poisonous animals like scorpions and they make those
figures around the shape of the man or woman. Then they
make all the preparations matching the time and hour of
the planet they are aiming for. Then once the potion is
done that person gets sick with any of these animals
diseases and becomes crazy, scared and in so much pain.
Then Kothamy said mat the magicians are people he fears
to interfere with and will not say anything about them
because they are extremely dangerous and evil and could
harm him.
From the other useful plants that are used in potions is
the olive tree as Rawahty mentioned in his poem that he
wrote in his book The Cultivation, he said "This tree has
lived in glory as it says "I am the golden that my oil is in
the color of the gold and has a cure for ninety-eight
diseases. There is no other oil that strengthens the heart
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