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Free Online Talk · Witches & Their Poisons: A History of Flying Ointment, with Author and Occultist Melissa Madara

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Join author and occultist Melissa Madara for a look at the history and folklore of flying ointment, the e most feared and revered of magical concoctions in the folklore of medieval witchcraft. Made from a litany of transgressive ingredients—poisons, psychedelics, animal parts and human remains—this substance was believed to grant humans the power of supernatural flight, with which they could speak to spirits, wander unseen, and travel forth by night to meet the Devil.