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tinctures, after grinding pour their weight four times
water. Put in a pot till it boils smooth, then leave it to cool
and clear up and that will turn into red water like ruby
that shines.
A talisman to make green killer scorpions and the way
they are made is by fasting for a whole day then chew on
wild cucumber leaves and you put the chewed leaves in a
glass bottle and seal it and hang it in a dark moist house
that does not get any sun light and after forty days
scorpions will be born that are green and if thev sting any
human it will kill immediately and it is useful to cure from
scorpion stings if it is soaked in oil and hung in the sun for
twenty one days until it dissolves and dies then use it on
the sting and it takes the pain away and if you drop one
drop of this oil on any scorpion it would kill it
immediately.
A talisman to make a red snake and the way it is done
is by soaking big spiders in female donkey milk in a glass
bottle and leave it for three days then take the fat from a
turtle and grind it with the spiders and the milk till it takes
on the form of a brain and put it in wool cloth and bury it
in manure and after seven days strange red snakes will be
born and if you used harvestman instead of spiders then
the snakes that will be born it will look like serpents
because the harvestman is the enemy of the serpents in
Egypt as when the harvestman sees the serpent it follows it
all the time until it fights with it and stings it to death and
the serpent would die immediately.
A talisman to keep bugs away from the home or the
village and the way it is made is by taking hair from the
comb of a reindeer at the moment it is struck by a male
bull, then make a bug of copper and tie a hair on each bug
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