Hexensalbe Eau De Parfum 30 Ml Stora Skuggan

"Rummaging through the lady's closet, they found a pipe of ointment, with which she anointed a stick, on which she walked and galloped for better or for worse, when and how she listed"
– Proceedings against Dame Alice Kyteler, tried for witchcraft, 1324
Hexensalbe, also known as witches' flying ointment, was a hallucinogenic ointment used in witchcraft in the Middle Ages. It was a mixture of extremely poisonous ingredients.
The drug produced an ecstatic trance with powerful sensations of flight, images of otherworldly creatures, and a primal sexual hunger. These hallucinations are central to the mythology of the witches, where they fly on the Sabbath to Blåkulla or Brocken to make out with the devil and other witches in unholy rites.
So, the image of flying witches can be traced back to the use of hexensalbe, but why on a broomstick? The ointment was so poisonous that eating it would have been directly fatal, instead it was applied to other soft membranes of the body, the armpits and most commonly the genitals. Because of the erotic effects of the high, the ointment was often rubbed directly onto a phallic object such as the end of a stick or broomstick. And so, the witch did not ride the broom as we imagine her today. In fact, she actually rode it.
Considering which aspects of the hexensalbe story have survived in the modern image of witches and which have been suppressed, it would seem that the only thing more terrifying than witches or devils is female sexuality.

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