Scotopia Solution

Effect: Allows night vision

Ingredients
500ml water
Juice of 5 Carrots
100g Knotgrass
7 drops Bats blood
50ml Elder Tree sap

Instructions
Extract the juice of five medium carrots and add to 500ml of boiling water.
Allow mixture to boil (100 degrees Celsius) for three minutes and add the knotgrass,stir twice counter-clockwise.
Reduce the flame to a simmer (90 degrees Celcius). Stir three times clockwise with a metal stirrer.
Add the bats blood, stirring once counter-clockwise between each drop with a metal stirrer. With each drop and stir, the solution should be slowly achieving better clarity and should be translucent by the end of this process.
Increase the cauldron flame to boil and add 50ml of Elder Tree sap.
Leave to boil until the solution’s orange deepens to a dark amber.

Extra notes
The colour should be a dark amber, but should be translucent enough to be able to see the bottom of your cauldron without any difficulty.
The Scotopia Solution allows the drinker the ability to see in the dark without difficulty, night vision.
The effects are temporary and typically last 8 hours.
The Scotopia Solution is not advised to be taken in the day time as the subject will be blinded by the saturation off light. This also applies to the use of artificial sources of light also, including but not restricted to: wand light, electric lights, solar operated lights, fire light.



Animal Whisperer Potion

Use/Effect:
Allows the drinker to understand what their pet is thinking (results vary depending on connection with pet)

Ingredients:
6 cups water
15 fresh Belladonna leaves
3 dried Fluxweed sprigs, roughly crushed in mortar and pestle (picked during a full moon, and dried over one week)
0.5mL Wormwood essence
2Tbsp Lacewing flies
1tsp honey
1tsp water
0.1mL Boomslang venom
1 crushed Unicorn Horn
1 measure of your animal

Method:
Add 6 cups of water to you cauldron, and light a small flame. Simmer the water for 5 minutes to slowly heat to an appropriate temperature
Pluck the 15 leaves of Belladonna from the sprigs, will need approximately 2 sprigs, and add them to the cauldron once five minutes is up
Gather the 3 sprigs of dried Fluxweed, and roughly crush in mortar and pestle. Only enough to increase the surface area, then add to the cauldron
Simmer for a further 3 minutes
Stir with a wooden stirrer, three times, clockwise
Measure, with a 1ml syringe, your Wormwood essence, and add to the cauldron.
Measure 0.1mL Boomslang venom in a different syringe and place to the side for a moment
Clean the mortar and pestle, add one unicorn horn, and crush it to a fine powder, then add the Boomslang venom. Mix together (it will not make a paste) and set aside for three minutes, then add to the cauldron.
Simmer the cauldron for three minutes, then stir three times, clockwise
Clean the mortar and pestle, and add two tablespoons of Lacewing flies, one teaspoon of honey, and one teaspoon of water, and crush until it makes a smooth paste. Carefully add the paste to the cauldron



Babbling Beverage
[slightly modified from Professor Branxton]

Use/Effect:
Causes drinker to babble nonsense.

Ingredients:
500ml Water
5g Fresh Alihotsy leaves
2 dried Billywig Stings
Pinch of powdered Erumpent tongue
5ml Armadillo bile
2 drops Leech Juice
1 tablespoon Activated Charcoal
Pinch of ground Bezoar500ml Water
5g Fresh Alihotsy leaves
2 dried Billywig Stings
Pinch of powdered Erumpent tongue
5ml Armadillo bile
2 drops Leech Juice
1 tablespoon Activated Charcoal
Pinch of ground Bezoar

Method:
Clean equipment
Add water to cauldron, and bring to a simmer
Stew alihotsy leaves in simmering water for 20 minutes [prepare other ingredients whilst waiting]
Remove all traces of leaves, and return water to a boil
Add dried billywig stings and erumpent tongue, boil for 10 minutes, continuously stiring counter-clockwise
Allow to cool to room temperature (22 °C/72 °F)
Add armadillo bile, stir five (5) times counter-clockwise
Add leech juice, stir twenty (20) times counter-clockwise, and the potion should be light brown in colour
Bring back to a boil
Circle wand counter-clockwise over cauldron whilst saying the incantation ‘garrula lingua’ and bring down to a simmer
Add 1 levelled tablespoon of activated charcoal
Stir counter-clockwise three (3) times slowly
Add a pinch of ground bezoar
Stir once counter clockwise and remove from heat
As it cools, it will turn from a light brown colour to a fluorescent yellow
When the colour stops lightening, you may bottle your potion. It will be approximately ten serves, if stored in 20mL vials.

Level: Beginner - Intermediate
Characteristics: Fluorescent, solid yellow
Information: Dose is 20ml. Smaller dose will limit effects, larger dose will have no extra effect due to the addition of activated charcoal and ground bezoar, which adds a protection to the drinker.



Concentration Concoction

Use/Effect:
Increase the drinkers concentration, up to optimal. Best for times of exams.

Ingredients:
1 liter of water
Five Ginkgo Biloba leaves
Two Ginkgo Biloba seeds (soaked), ground to a paste
Two Tablespoons of boiling water
1 tea light candle
20 Hyssop leaves
18 Peppermint leaves
16 Basil leaves
14 Rosemary leaves
12 Citrus leaves
10 Lavender leaves
8 Lavender buds
Two squares of cheesecloth

Method:
Add water to cauldron, bring to a boil
Add two Ginkgo Biloba seeds to a small bowl, add two tablespoons of boiling water from the cauldron and leave for ten minutes to soften.
Slice the GB leaves into thin strips (approximately 2mm wide) with your knife and sprinkle into cauldron.
Grind in mortar and pestle until you create a paste, and add this to the cauldron.
Prepare the leaves/flowers
Add in the leaves and flowers one by one. Some might sink, others will remain floating. Leave for fifteen minutes.
In the meantime, light a tealight candle and put to eye height (to avoid straining neck and back), an arms width from the body (prop on books if needed)
Gaze at the candle flame until your eyes feel like they need to blink, then close your eyes. Concentrate on the image of the candle in your mind (the after image). Repeat for fifteen minutes.
Pour the wax from the candle into the cauldron.
Cast the incantation Mentis Apertus (men-tees ah-peh-rr-tus), whilst circling the want over the cauldron, perform three times.
Remove all leaves and flowers from the cauldron, adding them to the mortar and pestle. Grind them until they form a herby paste, and add it back to the cauldron.
Stir the potion 20 times, slowly, clockwise, with a wooden stirrer.
Remove it from the heat.
Layer two pieces of cheesecloth material over your strainer, to catch more of the solid ingredients. Strain the potion into your vials.
By the end, your potion should yield 500 milliliters. Divide this into 50-milliliter vials. Hand one up for marking and you may take the others.

Level: Beginner - Intermediate
Characteristics: Clear, some green sediment may remain
Information: Dose is 50ml, less than would have limited effect, overdose may cause the opposite effect.
The effect is mostly dependent on the concentration during the candle gazing.
This concoction will last one year.