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Some real-life beverages were created and marketed after appearing as fictional, as is the case with Duff Beer from the TV show The Simpsons. To promote The Simpsons Movie, convenience store 7-Eleven marketed a Duff-branded energy drink. Booty Sweat – Tropic Thunder [30] Brawndo – Idiocracy [38] [39] Duff Beer – The Simpsons [15]
Creating a potion for immortality, was a common pursuit of alchemists throughout history. [31] The Elixir of Life is a famous potion that aimed to create eternal youth. [32] During the Chinese dynasties, this elixir of life was often recreated and drunk by emperors, nobles and officials.
The mythological White Hare from Chinese mythology, brewing the elixir of life on the Moon. The elixir of life (Medieval Latin: elixir vitae), also known as elixir of immortality, is a potion that supposedly grants the drinker eternal life and/or eternal youth. This elixir was also said to cure all diseases.
There also exists a recipe book where the recipes to all drinks that can be made can be looked up. [17] Sukeban Games says that they hope the book, which was a requested feature in the game's prologue, would make the bartending "feel more organic", and allow players to experiment. [17] While the characters drink, they also converse with the player.
A love potion (poculum amatorium) [1] is a magical liquid which supposedly causes the drinker to develop feelings of love towards the person who served it. Another common term to describe the potion, philtre , is thought to have originated from the ancient Greek term philtron (' love charm'), via the French word philtre .
Potion Craft was created by niceplay games, a Russian independent developer founded by Mikhail Chuprakov. Chuprakov stated that the game was inspired by a "mix of mechanics" adapted from a line of alchemy-themed titles previously published by the developer, and the inclusion of a potion-making minigame in the 2018 role-playing video game Kingdom Come: Deliverance. [4]
Glauber's salt – sodium sulfate.Na 2 SO 4; Sal alembroth – salt composed of chlorides of ammonium and mercury.; Sal ammoniac – ammonium chloride.; Sal petrae (Med. Latin: "stone salt")/salt of petra/saltpetre/nitrate of potash – potassium nitrate, KNO 3, typically mined from covered dungheaps.
Flying ointment is a hallucinogenic ointment said to have been used by witches in the practice of European witchcraft from at least as far back as the Early Modern period, when detailed recipes for such preparations were first recorded and when their usage spread to colonial North America.