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passing through so well. But choose for that effect, yellow &
natural raw silk because it is stronger & casts out flour
like horsehair.


To know the good azurite ash for oil

The one that piles up in small clods and is lumpy is
the best because it is the most subtle. Also the one that is also very
pale in color, because oil darkens it. Certain
sophisticators mix them, but you will know this if you pour
some onto a piece of paper & lay it flat & smudge it with
the finger since, if it is mixed, it will be found
variegated & as if with pale & darker stripes, but if it is
unmixed it will be even & of one color.




Whitening of pearls

When they have been applied in embroidery on some garment, they are
greasy & are cleaned in soapy water.




Toadstone

The kind which comes from the head of the toad & has
the shape of the toad, painted nature-like as you have seen, is
the most excellent. It is held that if one puts the powder of it on a
brazier in chamber of some persons at night, they
will be neither able to move, nor speak, nor thwart thieves.




Snakes

It is said that if one calls a snake in Greek, saying
ΟΦΗ ΟΦΗ, it will flee. Likewise, if one nom
calls a swine in Greek, yïon, it
will come.




Candles

Candlemakers never make good candle when the
Autan wind blows because it is always melty, however
good the tallow they use for it.



