ab:ointment.txt                                                    16jan90


                       To Make Anointing Ointment


   Take a glazed pan half full of grease or olive oil. Put in sweet mint
   leaves bruised. Place pan in hot water bath. Stir occasionally. After
   four or five hours pour into linen bag and squeeze grease through into
   pot again and fill with fresh leaves. Repeat until grease is strongly
   scented. Do same with marjoram, thyme and pounded dried patchouli
   leaves, an you may have them (for they be best of all). When strongly
   scented, mix all the greases together and keep in a well-stoppered jar.

   Anoint behind ears, throat, breasts and womb. In rites where "Blessed
   be ..." may be said, anoint knees and feet, as also for rites connected
   with journeys or war.
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   -Published in Janet & Stewart Farrar's "The Witches' Way", from GBG's
    Text B/C BOS