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Would you like to make a Mandragora, as powerful as the homunculus ( little man in a bottle ) so praised by Paracelsus?

Then find a root of the plant called bryony.

Take it out of the ground on a Monday ( the day of the moon ), a little time after the vernal equinox.

Cut off the ends of the root and bury it at night in some country churchyard in a dead man's grave.

For thirty days water it with cow's milk in which three bats have been drowned.

When the thirty-first day arrives, take out the root in the middle of the night and dry it in an oven heated with branches of verbena ; then wrap it up in a piece of a dead man's winding-sheet and carry it with you everywhere.