Most Potente Potions

by T. L. Cook

    Potions are very important to the magical world. In their most powerful forms, they can save lives; they can killl.  This book will describe powerful good and bad potions with ingrediants, along with a list of ingrediants and a short description.  Read on ...     

    Note: Any potion that does not include specific directions means you should simply add all ingredients and stir for 53 minutes.                 

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Table of Contents

  1. Boil Ointment
  2. Draught of the Living Dead
  3. Hair Raising Potion
  4. Life-Preserving Potion
  5. Mandrake Restorative Potion
  6. Polyjuice Potion
  7. Shrinking Solution
  8. Wit-Sharpening Potion
  9. Wolfsbane Potion

Boil Oinkment

Description: Cures boils.

Ingredients: Dried nettle, snake fangs, horned slugs, shredded pigskin.

Directions: Crush the snake fangs, stew the horned slugs and add them both to cauldron. Take cauldron off fire and add pigskin.

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Draught of the Living Dead

Description: Extremely strong sleeping potion.

Ingredients: Powdered root of asphodel and an infusion of wormwood.                                                                    

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Hair Raising Potion

Description: Does exactly what it says above. It raises your your hair.

Ingredients: Pure water, rat tails.                                                                                                  

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Life-Preserving Potion

Description: This allows someone to live without a body and does not require a cauldron.

Ingredients: Unicorn blood and snake venom.

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Mandrake Restorative Potion

Description: This is a powerful restorative which returns transfigured people to their original state.

Ingredients: You must grow a Mandrake to its adult form (they will try to share pots when they are adults) and then they can produce the restorative.  Occasionally, you may have to boil an unwilling Mandrake. 

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Polyjuice Potion

Description: This potion will turn you into any other person you wish.  However, it can go greviously wrong if you attempt to become an animal.  This can only be done by becoming an anamagi!  Drink this potion and it will transform you.                                                                                                                                                                                                  Ingredients: Lacewig flies, leaches, fluxweed, knot grass, powdered horn of abicorn, shredded skin of boomslang and part of the person you want to turn into.  An example would be hair or toenails.

Directions: Pick the fluxweed during a full moon, add leeches to cauldron, add lacewigs and stew for 21 days, and add bicorn horn and boomslang skin.

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Shrinking Solution

Description: This solution shrinks whatever comes into contact with it.

Ingredients: Daisy roots, shrivelfig, dead caterpillar, one rat spleen, and a dash of leech juice.

Directions: Chop the daisy roots up into equal pieces, skin the shrivelfig, add rat spleen and leech juice and let the potion simmer a little before use.

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Wit-Sharpening Potion

Description: This potion makes it's drinker more witty, funny and clever.

Ingredients: Scarab beetles, ginger roots and armadillo bile.

Directions: Crush scarabs into powder, slice ginger roots and put both into cauldron then add armadillo bile and simmer for approximately half an hour.

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Wolfsbane

Description: Wolfsbane potion is a recent discovery and a very complex potion ot make.   It allows a werewolf to have its human state of mind.

Ingredients: Too many to list here.                                                                                                                                       

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