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Harttliepp
Identifier
007093
Type of Spiritual Experience
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A description of the experience
Harttliepp [physician at the court of Bavaria] 1456
Quoted in Hans Peter Duerr - Dreamtime
For such travelling, both men and women, that is the witches, use a salve called ungentum pharelis or ‘lighthouse ointment’. It is prepared from seven herbs, each one of which is picked on a certain day. Thus on Sunday they pick and dig heliotrope, on Monday crescent shaped fern, on Tuesday verbena, on Wednesday spurge, on Thursday houseleek, and on Friday maidenhair and all this they use to make ointment; they also add bird’s gall and the fat of various animals, which I will not describe lest someone should take offence. When they feel the urge, they rub their bench, their rake or loading fork and off they fly