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hot Sun for ten days and cook it for one day, drain it and
then soak whatever you want of horns, canine tooth's and
all hard edgy objects in this mixture and leave it in the hot
Sun or on fire but cover it too keep any dust from getting
into it with a piece of cloth and however you cook it, in the
Sun or on fire, cover it with a lid because that will soften
all the hard objects and makes it doughy so it is easier to
be used in any of the magical charms. There is also another
formula that gives the same effect on objects but it is done
with different ingredients and the way it is done is by
taking equal amounts of citron acid and rice vinegar and
mix it with three dirham ground sea foam and ammonia
and keep stirring constantly for one day, then leave it in
the Sun for three days and soak the solid objects that you
need to soften in it and put it in the hot Sun til! it is soft
and easy to kneed with and use in the magical charms.
This formula is great for softening sulfur but because of
the strong smell of the sulfur, this formula is not used in
the edible charms but other objects like stones and solid
objects are used in charms that have very strange effects.
Daghrecth said that taking a weight of ten dirhams of
ground saffron and mixing it with alcohol, then give it to
someone to drink will make that person laugh till he dies
and that he will not be able to control himself or stop
himself from laughing also no one will be able to help him
or do anything to stop him from dying. Daghareeth also
says that the amount in this formula is what is unique
about it because if we use ten and a half dirham or nine
and a half dirhams of the saffron we will not get the same
effect and the person that drinks it will not be affected, wifl
not laugh and will not die of laughing. The effect of saffron
and its specialty is in its weight because if we increased or
decreased the amount it will not give any effect I
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