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.