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visions. In like manner, a fume made of calamint, peony, mints, and palma christi, drives away all evil spirits and
vain imaginations.
Moreover, it is said that by certain fumes certain animals are gathered together and also put to flight, as Pliny
mentions concerning the stone liparis, that with the fume thereof all beasts are called out. So the bones in the
upper part of the throat of a hart, being burnt, gather all the serpents together; but the horn of the hart, being burnt,
doth with its fume chase them all away. The same doth a fume of the feathers of peacocks. Also, the lungs of an
ass, being burnt, puts all poisonous things to flight; the fume of the burnt boof of a horse drives away mice; the
same doth the hoof of a mule; with which, also, if it be the hoof of the left foot, flies are driven away. And, they
say, if a house or any place be smoked with the gall of a cuttle-fish, made into a confection with red storax, roses,
and lignum-aloes, or lignaloes, and if then there be some sea-water, or blood, cast into that place, the whole house
will seem to be full of water or blood; and if some earth of plowed ground be cast there, the earth will seem to
quake. Now, such kinds of vapors, we must conceive, do infect any body and infuse a vertue into it, which doth
continue long, even as any contagious or poisonous vapor of the pestilence, being kept for two years in the wall of
a house infects the inhabitants, and as the contagion of pestilence, or leprosy, lying hid in a garment, doth long
after infect him that wears it. Therefore were certain suffumigations used to affect images, rings, and such like
instruments of magic and. hidden treasures, and, as Porphyrius saith, very effectually. So, they say, if any one
shall hide gold or silver, or any other precious thing, the Moon being in conjunction with the Sun, and shall fume
the hiding place with coriander, saffron, henbane, smallage, and black poppy, of each a like quantity, bruised
together, and tempered with the juice of hemlock, that which is so hid shall never be found or taken away; and
that spirits sbafl continually keep it, and if any one shall endeavor to take it away he shall be hurt by them and
shall fall into a frenzy.
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And Hermes saith that there is nothing like the fume of spermaceti for the raising of spirits. Wherefore, if a fume
be made of that and lignum-aloes, red storax, pepper-wort, musk, and saffron, all tempered together, with the
blood of a lapwing, it will quickly gather airy spirits together, and if it be used about the graves of the dead, it
gathers together spirits and the ghosts of the dead.
So, as often as we direct any work to the Sun, we must make suffumigations with Solary things, and if to the
Moon, with Lunary things, and so of the rest. And we must know that as there is a contrariety and enmity in stars
and spirits, so also in suffumigations unto the same. So there is also a contrariety betwixt lignum aloes and
sulphur, frankincense, and quicksilver; therefore spirits that are raised by the fume of lignum aloes are allayed by
the burning of sulphur. As Proclus gives an example of a spirit, which was wont to appear in the form of a lion,
but, by the setting of a cock before it, vanished away because there is a contrariety betwixt a cock and a lion, and
so the like consideration and practice is to be observed concerning such like things.
Chap. xliv. The Composition of some Fumes appropriated to the Planets.
We make a suffumigation for the Sun in this manner, viz., of saffron, ambergris, musk, lignum aloes, lignum
balsam, the fruit of the laurel, cloves, myrrh, and frankincense; all which being bruised and mixt in such a
proportion as may make a sweet odour, must be incorporated with the brain of an eagle, or the blood of a white
cock, after the manner of pills, or trochisks [troches].
For the Moon we make a suffumigation of the head of a dried frog, te eyes of a bull, the seed of white poppy,
frankincense, and camphor; which must be incorporated with catamenia, or the blood of a goose.
For Saturn, take black poppy seed, henbane, root of mandrake, the loadstone, and myrrh, and make them up with
the brain of a cat or the blood of a bat.
For Jupiter, take the seed of ash, lignum aloes, storax, the gum benjamin or benzoin, the lazuli stone, and the tops
of the feathers of a peacock; and incorporate them with the blood of a stork, or a swallow, or the brain of a hart.
For Mars, take euphorbium, bdellium, gum ammoniac, the roots of both hellebores, te loadstone, and a little
sulphur; and incorporate them all with the brain of a hart, the blood of a man, and the blood of a black cat.
For Venus, take musk, ambergris, lignum aloes, red roses and red coral, and make them up with the brain of
sparrows and the blood of pigeons.
For Mercury, take mastic, frankincense, cloves, and the Hearb [herb] cinquefoil, and the stone achate, and
incorporate them all with the brain of a fox or weasel, and the blood of a magpie.
Besides, to Saturn are appropriated for fumes all odoriferous roots, as pepper-wort, etc., and the frankincense tree;
to Jupiter, odoriferous fruits, as nutmegs and cloves; to Mars, all odoriferous wood, as sanders, cypress, lignum
balsam, and lignum aloes; to the Sun, all gums, frankincense, mastic, benjamin, storax, ladanum, ambergris, and
musk; to Venus, sweet flowers, as roses, violets, saffron, and such like; to Mercury, all peels of wood and fruit, as
cinnamon, lignum cassia, mace, citron or lemon peel, and bayberries, and whatsoever seeds are odoriferous; to
the Moon, the leaves of all vegetables, as the leaf indum, and the leaves of the myrtle and bay-tree.
Know, also that according to the opinion of the magicians, in every good matter, as love, good will, and the like,
there ,ust be a good fume, odoriferous and precious; and in every evil matter, as hatred, anger, misery, and the
like, there must be a stinking fume, that is of no worth.
The twelve signs also of the Zodiac have their proper fumes, as Aries hath myrrh; Taurus, pepperwort; Gemini,
mastic; Cancer, camphor; Leo, frankincense; Virgo, sanders; Libra, galbanum; Scorpio, opoponax; Sagittarius, [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]

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