30/10/2012

Moroccan magic

The following are a few recipes for this  magic cooking. In order to separate a couple who love each other, the rival procures the gall of a crow, some stork's dirt and some owl's droppings, the remains of the meal eaten by seven persons who are keeping the fast, some laurel root, a piece off a blind Jew's cap, the temporal lock of a negro, and some bones of a carcase. She burns it all up in a new cooking-pot which serves as a retort, and mixes up a little of the ashes with the man's food.

HOW ARABIC TALISMANS ARE MADE

  In the creation of inscriptions and amulets (talismans and amulets), the most critical requirements include physical purity, piety, fear ...