The Secrets of Albertus Magnus on the Nature of Women and the Virtues of Herbs

Take this herb and mix it with Realgar arsenic sulfide and Hermodactilen an herb also known as meadow saffron/autumn crocus. Put it into the food of a mad dog, and it will immediately perish.

If you put its juice with the aforementioned things into a silver cup, it breaks into small pieces.

And if you mix it with the blood of a young hare, and sew that into a hare's skin, all hares will gather there until it is removed.

XI. White Lily.

If you gather this herb when the sun is in the sign of the Lion the astrological sign Leo, and mix it with the juice of bay leaves, and then place this in manure for a time, they will become worms. From these, a powder is made, and when placed around a neck, or on one's clothes, he will never sleep...