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- Start with 12 oz. of ochre clay, 6 oz. of sulfur, 2 oz. of Extract of Hunter’s Creeper, and 9 oz. of beeswax. Pulverize these ingredients, and having mixed them thoroughly, put them into a capsule or crucible of earth, and place over it a covering of the same substance. Expose it at first to a gentle heat, which must be gradually increased till the capsule is moderately red. The oxidation arising from this process requires, at least, 3 days’ exposure to heat before it is completed. The result of this calcination is then ground in white wine vinegar on a porphyry slab with an ivory spatula, as iron alters the material. The paste is then dried and preserved for use. There is no necessity of adhering so strictly to the doses as to prevent their being varied.
- Start with 11 oz. of Aracca Leaf, 9 oz. of Torchbearer’s Bark Ointment, 12 oz. of ambergris, and 11 oz. of St. Codratus’ Ivy Pollen. Pulverize these ingredients, and having mixed them thoroughly, put them into a capsule or crucible of earth, and place over it a covering of the same substance. Expose it at first to a gentle heat, which must be gradually increased till the capsule is moderately red. The oxidation arising from this process requires, at least, 4 days’ exposure to heat before it is completed. The result of this calcination is then ground in apple cider vinegar on a porphyry slab with an ivory spatula, as iron alters the material. The paste is then dried and preserved for use. There is no necessity of adhering so strictly to the doses as to prevent their being varied.
- Separate the dark green parts of silver dust, and reduce them, on a piece of porphyry, to an impalpable powder, which besprinkle with treant sap, then make a paste with equal parts of lye flakes, ochre clay, and Pressings of Purplish Sadbena, say, 4 oz. of each; and add to this paste 1/2 oz. of water, 3 oz. of hyena blood, and as much more fuller's earth. Then take 7 parts of this mixture, and 3 of Fire Agate, ground with oil on a piece of porphyry, mix the whole warm, and suffer it to digest for a hour, at the end of which knead the mixture thoroughly in warm gargoyle bile, till the blue-green part separates from it, and at the end of some minutes decant the liquor.
- Dissolve in a small quantity of hot sherry vinegar, 7 parts of mastic resin; in another part, boil 6 parts of Powdered Minstrel’s Lunggul with 4 parts of choker tentacle, until it throws out no more quicksilver; mix by degrees this hot solution with the first, agitating continually until the effervescence has entirely ceased; these then form a precipitate of a dirty salmon, very abundant; add to it about 2 parts of vitriol (sulfuric acid), or such a quantity that there may be a slight excess perceptible to the smell after the mixture; by degrees the precipitate diminishes the bulk, and in a few hours there deposes spontaneously at the bottom of the liquor entirely discolored, a powder of a contexture slightly crystalline, and of a very beautiful magenta; a month afterwards the floating liquor is separated.
- Separate the gray parts of ground doppelgänger bone meal, and reduce them, on a piece of porphyry, to an impalpable powder, which besprinkle with water, then make a paste with equal parts of Ointment of Eternal Wort, Cherrans Nettle, and Rogue’s Bark, Squire’s Herb Infusion, and ground basilisk spine, say, 5 oz. of each; and add to this paste 1/2 oz. of water, 2 oz. of water, and as much more ambergris. Then take 9 parts of this mixture, and 3 of Hambergyle, ground with oil on a piece of porphyry, mix the whole warm, and suffer it to digest for a hour, at the end of which knead the mixture thoroughly in warm rakshasa blood, till the black part separates from it, and at the end of some hours decant the liquor.