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  2. Flying ointment - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Arrack - Wikipedia

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    The original recipe was a mixture of arrack with water, sugar, lemon, and tea and/or spices (chiefly nutmeg). [3] Today punsch is drunk warm (in Sweden) or cold (in Finland) as an accompaniment to yellow split pea soup (in Sweden) or green split pea soup (in Finland), or chilled as an after dinner drink accompanied with coffee (especially ...

  4. Brownie (folklore) - Wikipedia

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    The "cellar ghost" is a spirit who guards wine in cellars from would-be thieves; [45] Lazy Lawrence is said to protect orchards; [45] Awd Goggie scares children away from eating unripe gooseberries; [45] and Melch Dick guards nut thickets. [45] The Kilmoulis is a brownie-like creature from the Scottish Lowlands that is often said to inhabit ...

  5. Divination - Wikipedia

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    As such, magazines targeted at women in their early-to-mid twenties feature the highest concentration of personality assessment guides. There are approximately 144 different women's magazines, known as nihon zashi koukoku kyoukai , published in Japan aimed at this audience.

  6. Singapore sling - Wikipedia

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    This recipe persisted for decades and is recalled in 1982 in The Sainsbury Book of Cocktails & Party Drinks, [12] where it is also called the Singapore sling and was the classic recipe of the time. A minor difference occurs in that the measures of the spirits were twice the quantity compared with the lemon and soda of the 1930 quotation and ...

  7. Necromancy - Wikipedia

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    The main recipe employed throughout the Manual used the same religious language and names of power alongside demonic names. An understanding of the names of God derived from apocryphal texts and the Hebrew Torah required that the author of such rites have at least a casual familiarity with these sources.

  8. Magic in Anglo-Saxon England - Wikipedia

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    Another type of spirit creature, a demonic one, believed to cause physical harm in the Anglo-Saxon world was the dweorg or dƿeorg/dwerg ("dwarf"), whom Storms characterised as a "disease-spirit". [18] A number of charms imply the belief that malevolent "disease-spirits" were causing sickness by inhabiting a person's blood.

  9. Screwdriver (cocktail) - Wikipedia

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    The drink originated during World War II, when Americans in China and Turkey mixed neutral spirits with orange juice. [2] The origin of the name "screwdriver" is less clear, but the name appeared in Ankara, Turkey, in 1943 [2] and 1944 [3] and later in Istanbul. [4]