Flying Ointment Page
Birds fly over the rainbow - why then oh why can't I?
ALL of the substances mentioned on this page are .
This page is intended only to facilitate
learning about the history, psychology, chemistry and biology of so called "witches' flying
ointment", and, more generally, "entheogens".
I have never personally ingested ANY of these substances - and I do not in any way encourage
anyone else to do so.
all links working as of 6-8-2001
Background material on flying ointments
Alexander Kuklin has written a nice little book called
How Do Witches Fly. You can
purchase the book from Amazon.com
Here's a page mostly focussing on
Belladonna but also dealing with some historical stuff on flying ointment.
And here's a nice little site devoted to Drugs and Witchcraft.
Here is a nice page on Witching Plants.
And here's another historically oriented Belladonna page.
Michael Harner's book
Hallucinogens and Shamanism has a good essay on the subject of drugs and european witchcraft. His essay is a little unkind
to modern day "Wiccans" - but perhaps not unfairly so.
This is a little piece on the History of Substance
Control.
Nowadays, anyone foolish enough to actually use some combination of belladonna, wolfsbane, henbane, etc, only
has to worry about death by poisoning or permanent neurological damage and liver damage. Not so long ago there was
an added danger -
being burned at the stake. Also check out the Hall
of Remembrance