Potions taught by the talented Potion Master
Reynard Bontecou Hair Raising Potion Use/Effect:
The Hair Raising Potion makes your hair stand on end
Ingredients: - Water, boiling (200 mL)
- Rat tails, sliced (2)
- Billy wig stings, crushed (2)
- Spider legs (24)
Instructions: - Bring water to a boil & crush billy wig stings.
- Add billy wig stings and spider legs and stew for 15 minutes.
- Add rat tail slices and continue to stew for 30 minutes.
- Remove from heat and cool before spritzing on hair.
Hair Removal Paste Use/Effect:
Removes hair
Ingredients: - beeswax (2 tablespoons)
- juice from 5 flobberworms, freshly squeezed
- shrivelfig (1, peeled & crushed)
- calendula oil (10 drops)
Instructions: - melt wax in cauldron
- add flobberworm juice and stir over high heat for 5 minutes, alternate stirring clockwise and counterclockwise every minute
- add shrivelfig and stew over a low flame for 30 minutes
- remove from heat and allow to cool completely before applying
- add calendula oil after cooled and before application
Notes:
Can add essential oils for fragrance. Apply to area requiring hair removal, allow to stand for 5 minutes, and remove with a warm, moist, cloth. Discard after 24 hours
Aging Potion Use/Effect:
Causes the drinker to advance in age
Ingredients: - Red Wine (100 mL)
- Prune Juice (10 mL)
- Hairy Fungus (2 g, mashed)
- Tortoise Shell (2 g, powdered)
- Caterpillar (5 g, sliced)
- Bat Tongue (1, diced)
Instructions: - Prepare all ingredients as listed in the ingredients list, weighing and measuring each carefully.
- Slowly heat the red wine and prune juice and begin stirring clockwise until you can just see bubbles starting to form. (The mixture will be dark purple/brown)
- Immediately add the Hairy Fungus and continue to stir clockwise for ten minutes. (The mixture will slowly fade to a lighter purple/brown)
- Continuing to stir clockwise, add the tortoise shell. (The mixture will be a creamy color)
- After eight minutes, remove the cauldron from the heat and add the caterpillar and bat tongue, making sure to continue to stir the solution in a clockwise motion.
- As the potion cools, it will turn milky white. Once it is completely cooled (about fifteen to twenty minutes), you may cease your clockwise stirring and dispense the potion into appropriate vials for storage.
Singing Suspension Use/Effect:
Causes the drinker to sing uncontrollably
Ingredients: - water (500 mL)
- 2 acorns (meat only, crushed)
- billywig wings (a pinch)
- scurvy-grass (1 dram)
Instructions: - boil water
- add ingredients & stir constantly for 5 minutes
- remove from flame & stir once a minute for 5 minutes
- allow to cool before pouring into vials or ingestion