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be put into the hollow space between the two discs will 

 receive the impression of the snake on one side and of 

 the scorpion on the other. The instrument is to be 

 made at a time when sun and moon are together in the 

 sign of Scorpion.-^ By this process the upper bodies will 

 be joined to the lower ones in an inseparable sympa- 

 thetic union." 



" The substance of which the tablets are made is 

 prepared as follows: — Take about eighteen live toads, 

 dry them by exposing them to the sun and the air, and 

 powder them. They must be dried very quickly, else 

 they will rot. Take a number of menstrual cloths from 

 young girls ; white arsenic, auro-pigment, half an ounce 

 of each ; roots of Diptamus albus and Tormentilla ereda, 

 of each three drachms ; one drachm of small pearls ; 

 red corals, pieces of hyacinths and smaragds, half a 

 drachm of each; oriental saffron, forty grains; and a 

 few grains of musk and amber. Powder all fine, mix 

 it all together, and make a paste out of it with rose- 

 water and gum-tragacanth. Make a paste out of it at 

 the time when the moon is in the sign of Scorpion, cut 

 into tablets, and seal them with the instrument. Dry 

 the tablets, cover them with red silk, and wear them by 

 a string around your neck, but they ought not to touch 

 the bare skin. Such an amulet protects the wearer 

 against the plague, sorcery, poison, and evil astral in- 

 fluences ; it draws poisons out of the body, and absorbs 

 them entirely." 



1 This takes place in the Macrocosm during the time of the new 

 moon, occurring each year between October 23 and November 23. 



