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fire_faerie 
Rachel looked around the room, bored again. She waved to the people she knew and spotted Celandince. "Hey Cela, how are you?" she asked, and added, "Nice one," in reference to the potion. Gosh, I haven't seen her for a while!
Celandine looked up from her ministrations and smild brightly at Rachel. She was a claw, she liked books right? And learning stuff?
"Hey Rachel, have a look at this." Celandine passed her the book open to the appropriate page.
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Development and use of Hair-raising potion and its ingredients
Initially created as a safe and easy to brew potion to test the effects of Billywig stings, the Hair-raising potion has many applications other than its most common use in pranking.
In Medieval times it was used on the head for better access to and view of lice and fleas.
It has been suggested that thieves would administer the potion to guard dogs over a series of nights until the owners were accustomed to the din their pet would put up at strange times during the night. Either ignoring the guard dog or silencing it thereby providing the thief access to the his quarry.
One young lady who had an entire cauldron dumped over her head even started a very well known vogue style known as the 'beehive' repeated in both in victorian times and during the 1950's and 1960's.
A more practical use is when harvesting hair from any beasts or beings known to be difficult in providing such hair; unicorns, werewolves, manticore's, griffins and the like.
Cela had a little giggle as she waited for her friend to read the portion of the book pertaining to their lesson.