Absolutely, Alchemy by Marin Bratsch

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Frango Frigus

The final spell in this textbook before we begin potions, is Frango Frigus. The spell is a charm that is especially useful in potioneering, and, in ancient times, had been used as a means to acquire fresh water which at times was a scarce thing, but vital in every aspect. Both words are Latin, the word Frango has the meaning "shatter" while Frigus is "cold, or coldness."

The spell, frango frigus, allows frozen water to shatter, but when it does, it doesn't act as an explosion. It's such a subtle change, you can barely even hear it, but it will cause frozen solid chunks of ice to break into a million, almost shaven pieces of ice, and it would rapidly increase the meltdown rate of the water without losing any substance through evaporation or giving away your location as other spells might.


The correct wand movements include a steady and firm hand, begin by pointing at the target and then flick the tip of the wand upward towards the sky, and then quickly revert the wand back to its prior position pointed at the target. The target must be within sight to perform correctly.

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Baleful Brew

The next following chapters will review alchemical potions; this chapter will detail the effects and process of the Baleful Brew. When completed correctly the potion eliminates any hindrance or hesitation from fear, paranoia, or worry, or sorrow from the drinker. And, as can be imagined, during the time of period of alchemical heights, this potion was crucial when trying to attain certain rare potion ingredients or experiments. For example, a man afraid of heights will not be affected by that domineering negative emotions, or a woman terrified of spiders, she too, will not be impeded by the heart pounding, deafening, irrational fear that the witch might normally would.

1 ½ cup of Essence of Dittany
3/5 cup of flobberworm mucus
3 grams of dried Asphodel leaves
1 ounce crushed Wormwood
1 handful of Aconite flowers
1/5 cup of molten Antimony
4 Doxy eggs
2 Dragon livers
5 Eel eye
5 1/3 grams of dried Venomous Tentacula leaves
12 pints of syrup of Hellebore
6 fl. Oz of Salamander blood
11 grams of Scurvy grass
2 grams of Lovage flowers
1 milligram of powdered unicorn horn

1. Mix and stir Dried Asphodel Leaves with the Dried Venomous Tentacula leaves in a mortar and crush until contents are near powder form, and then pour into a separate basin. Stir in 1 ½ cups of Essence of Dittany, and 3/5 cup of flobberworm mucus into the basin (preferably with a wand) and let simmer for twenty four hours to let the powder absorb.
2. Pour Salamander Blood into your empty cauldron and set to boil. After precisely six minutes, drop each Dragon Liver in, one at a time, while slowly mixing in, and then let sit and boil.
3. Once the mixture comes to a boil, stir in the asphodel, venomous tentacula, essence of dittany, flobberworm mucus mixture into the cauldron *only* stirring counterclockwise. The thick, red and course potion should take on a thinner, smoother texture now.
4. Once the mixture has liquefied, stir clockwise as need be, but only stir counterclockwise eighteen strokes at the most, or least. (See Professor for Further Instruction)
5. Drop in the Doxy Eggs and sprinkle in one handful of Aconite Flowers.
6. The potion should then immediately morph into a deep and vibrant violet color, wafting fumes of pink hues.
7. Stir in one ounce of Crushed Wormwood, and only six ounces of Syrup of Hellebore.
8. Allow contents to boil for over ten minutes before stirring in five Eel Eyes.
9. Also, combine Scurvy Grass and Lovage Flowers in a separate basin; add the final six ounces of Syrup of Hellebore into the mixture and stir the ingredients until the solidity of the grass and flowers have melted into the compound. Then add to the cauldron stirring counterclockwise.
10. Finally, add a dash of Molten Antimony (1/5 cup) and the Powdered Unicorn Horn (1 milligram.) The potion will then spark with a luminescent glow if done correctly.

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Mystic Potion

The mystic potion acts a shield of mist contained in a vial and is explosive upon impact which will manifest a wall of thick mist while recreating one of the four elements: the essence of either water, fire, earth, or wind, dependent upon the witch or wizard who brewed the potion. Extreme caution must be taken when adding the erumpent fluid, as the potion may explode or the cauldron may melt.

One Stop Watch
2 tsp Acromantula venom
½ jigger Black beetle eyes
1 cup Doxy eggs
¾ tbs Powdered Romanian Longhorn dragon horn
5 ½ fl. oz. Erumpent Fluid
3 liters Murtlap Essence
¼ gallon Flubberworm Mucus
2 ½ cups of shredded Ginger Roots
¼ cup essence of Lovage
4 cups Pomegranate Juice
7 Pufferfish Eyes
1 gallon of water

1. Add one gallon of water to cauldron and set to boil.
2. Combine two cups of pomegranate juice and the powdered Romanian Longhorn dragon horn in a separate basin, and stir gently.
3. Waiting exactly five minutes in between, add half of a single fluid ounce of Erumpent fluid at a time to the mixture of pomegranate juice and powdered dragon horn, there should be eleven total instances in which Erumpent Fluid added. Severe caution should be taken during this step, or the basin may melt, or explode.
4. Add the mixture of pomegranate, powdered dragon horn, and Erumpent fluid to the cauldron; let contents boil for approximately five minutes, and then add the final two cups of pomegranate juice turning the contents a deep lavender color.
5. Add one cup of doxy eggs to the cauldron, if the mixture is done correctly, the eggs should float. Stir in eggs counterclockwise until they sink to the bottom.
6. Combine half a jigger of black beetle eyes with three liters of murtlap essence in a separate basin, and once the eyes have dissolved, add to the cauldron.
7. To thicken the mixture, combine a quarter of a gallon of flubberworm mucus, stirring clockwise for one minute, and counterclockwise the next minute, and continue this cycle until the mixture thickens to a lilac color.
8. Slice each pufferfish eye in half through the use of the severing charm, and then drop each half eye into the cauldron, one at a time.
9. Stir in two teaspoons of acromantula venom.
10. Add remaining essence of lovage and ginger roots to the cauldron, a pink smoke will emit for several moments, stir the concoction with your wand and it should generously begin changing colors until it settles into a thick indigo paste once it cools.

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Patronus Potion

The result of the patronus potion causes a viscous of your patronus to appear above your cauldron in a billowing, often times, colorful silhouettes of smoke. Shaman wizards used patronu's to contact one another in dire emergencies, but to conjure a corporeal patronus had always been a difficult and advanced magic. The shamans believed that this potion assisted their journey on successfully conjuring a patronus. However, it wasn't until recently though the keen mind of Albus Dumbledore that patronus' can be used a means of communication. Hundreds of years ago, the shaman only had the patronus to send out, and hope that another shaman wizard would see and follow after it. It was through this that the muggle Shamans believed in ‘spirit guides’ because they witnessed a wizard’s patronus travelling back and forth.

¾ liter of ptolemy
4 grams crushed aconite flower
7 grams crushed moly flower
1 ounce sopophorous bean
11 grams shredded wartizome root
2 mL bulbadox juice
1 handful of fairy wings
4 cherries
2 ½ grams mistletoe berries
9 ml syrup of hellebore
12 scruples of sprigs of valerian
3 liters wormwood essence
18 grams powdered moonstone
6 grams shredded wiggentree bark
2 chizpurfle carapace
14 grams powdered staghorn

1. Add ¾ ptolemy to a cauldron and bring to a slow boil.
2. Crush 4 grams of aconite flower with mortar and pestle and set in separate bowl.
3. Crush 7 grams of moly flower with mortar and pestle and set in separate bowl.
4. Combine and crush aconite and moly together into a fine powder, and then crystallize lightly with a freezing charm, should only take second, and then add to the boiling cauldron.
5. Stir the concoction with a wand for twenty-three strokes, avoid popping bubbles, it will burn.
6. Gather one ounce of sopophorous bean and extract the juice into a clean basin.
7. Combine 11 grams of shredded wartizome root and 2mL of bubladox juice with the sopophorous bean juice, and set it aside for later.
8. Gather one handful of fairy wings, the fresher the better, and combine to the boiling cauldron. Increase the flame beneath the cauldron.
9. Stir with a wand counterclock wise eighteen times, and clockwise six times, and immediately add the warizome root, bulbadox juice and sopophorous juice to the cauldron.
10. Stir in any direction for exactly fifteen minutes.
11. One by one, drop in four cherries, stem and all. The potion will then turn a vivid red.
12. Add 9ml of chilled syrup of hellbore, stir until potion is a deep purple.
13. Add 12 scruples of sprigs of valerian.
14. Pour 3 liters of wormwood essence in a clean bowl. Next, add 18 grams of powdered moonstone.
15. Shred 6 grams of wiggentree bark and add to wormwood essence and powdered moonstone. Heat the contents with a flaming charm—but do not burn or boil. The, add to the cauldron.
16. Add 2 chizpurfle carapace, stir with a wand counterclockwise until bubbling has ceased.
17. Finally, stir in the final 14 grams of powdered staghorn until the royal purple potion begins to glow. If done correctly, a heavy wisp of purple smoke will roll in clouds, forming into the shape of what your patronus is or will be.

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Aqua Vitae

Aqua Vitæ (also spelt Aquavitæ) or aqua vita and also known as the "water of life" is an archaic name for a concentrated aqueous solution of ethanol, and is a term used to refer to distillates of alcoholic beverages. Aqua vitae was typically prepared by distilling wine; it was sometimes called "spirits of wine" in English texts, a name for brandy that had been repeatedly distilled. The creation of Aqua Vitæ was a common alchemic experiment among European alchemists in the Middle Ages. In modern days, its use is primarily as an ingredient for more advanced and complicated potions and products as fresh amounts of the concoction is usually needed.

25 lb corn meal or 25 lb shelled whole corn
100 lb sugar (sucrose)
100 gallons water
6 oz yeast


1. If you are starting with whole corn, you first need to convert the cornstarch into sugar by 'sprouting' the corn. Place the corn in a container, cover it with warm water, and drape a cloth over the container to prevent contamination and conserve heat. Ideally, the container will have a slowly draining hole at the bottom. Add warm water from time to time as the liquid level falls. Maintain the setup ~3 days or until the corn has sprouts about 2 inches long.

2. Allow the sprouted corn to dry. Then grind it into meal. Alternatively, start with cornmeal. Other grains can be prepared in much the same way (e.g. rye mash).

3. Mash or mush is made by adding boiling water to the corn meal. The mash is kept warm to start the fermentation process. Yeast is added, if available (half pound yeast per 50 gallons of mash, for example), and sugar (variable recipe). With yeast, fermentation takes about 3 days. Without yeast, fermentation could require more than 10 days. The mash is ready to 'run' once it stops bubbling. The mash has been converted into carbonic acid and alcohol. It is called 'wash' or 'beer' or 'sour mash'.

4. The wash is placed into a cooker, which has a lid that is pasted shut, so that it has a seal which can be blown off should internal pressure become too great. At the top of the cooker, there is a copper pipe, or 'arm' that projects to one side and tapers down from a 4-5 inch diameter to the same diameter as the 'worm' (1 to 1-1/4 inch). The 'worm' could be made by taking a 20 ft length of copper tubing, filling it with sand and stopping the ends, and then coiling it around a fence post.

5. The sand prevents the tubing from kinking while being coiled. Once the worm is formed, the sand is flushed out of the tube. The worm is placed in a barrel and sealed to the end of the arm. The barrel is kept full of cold, running water, to condense the alcohol. Water runs in the top of the barrel and out an opening at the bottom. A fire is maintained under the cooker to vaporize the alcohol in the wash.

6. The ethanol vaporizes at 173°F, which is the target temperature for the mixture. The spirit will rise to the top of the cooker, enter the arm, and will be cooled to the condensation point in the worm. The resulting liquid is collected at the end of the worm, traditionally into glass jars. This fluid will be translucent, and about the color of dark beer.

7. The very first liquid contains volatile oil contaminants in addition to alcohol. After that, liquid is collected. The containers of liquid collected from over the wash are called 'singlings'. Liquid collected toward the end of this run is called 'low wine'. Low wine can be collected and returned to the still to be cooked again. The initial collections are higher proof than those collected as the distillation progresses.

8. The singlings tend to have impurities and require double-distillation, so once the low wine has been run to the point where a tablespoon or so thrown on a flame won't burn (too low proof), the heat is removed from the still and the cooker is cleaned out. The liquid remaining in the still, the 'backings' or 'slop', can be recovered and poured over new grain (and sugar, water, and possibly malt) in a mash barrel for future distillations. Discard mash after no more than eight uses.

9. The singlings are poured into the cooker and the still is returned to operation. The initial collections can approach pure alcohol (200 proof), with the end collections, using the flash test on the flame, at about 10 proof.

10. The desired proof depends on the application. The highest proof usually obtained from a still is 190 proof. For using alcohol as a fuel alternative, for example, addition purification with a sieve may be required to obtain 200 proof ethanol.

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Dream Catch Potion

The Dream Catch potion needs to only rest on the beside them intended wizard at night; it encourages the witch or wizard to dream, and records and stores them analyzing. Dreams are often difficult to understand, but the records act as a means to remind the drinker of what’s truly important in their life, as that is usually what most dreams reflect. Each vial of the potion can only record one week’s worth of dreams.

1 tsp of Armadillo bile
3 cups of Powdered root of Asphodel
half a dozen Ashwinder eggs
2 handfuls of Belladonna flowers
1 Crocodile heart
5 ½ crushed Ginger roots
13 liters Syrup of Hellebore
3 dozen Jobberknoll feathers
4 grams of powdered Moonstone
2 Runespoor eggs
¼ cup of Scarab beetles
5 Sliced Caterpillar
8 cups of Shredded Daisy roots

1. Add seven liters of syrup of hellebore to the cauldron and leave to boil.
2. In a separate mortar, crush belladona flowers, crushed ginger roots, and powdered moonstone until contents are powdered together as one.
3. Add one teaspoon of armadillo bile to the crushed mortar mixture and stir, then, combine mixture to the cauldron stirring clockwise and the mixture will shift into a dark crimson color.
4. Add three cups of powdered root of asphodel, stir counterclockwise for five minutes, and then clockwise for two minutes.
5. Add half a dozen eggs of ashwinder, if the concoction is correct, the eggs should sink to the bottom.
6. Toss in one crocodile heart, but be wary, the potion will begin to bubble and froth, allow it to do so until it almost seems to bubble over and then toss in the three dozen jobberknoll feathers, and the mixture should begin steaming as it cools and the froth lessens and disappears leaving a murky maroon color behind.
7. Allow the mixture to sit for approximately ten minutes, or until the mixture has cooled and stops steaming.
8. Then, add the sliced caterpillars and the shredded daisy roots, turning counterclockwise only.
9. Drop in a quarter cup of scarab beetles, and two runespoor eggs; the mixture should begin fading to a red color.
10. Combine the remaining six liters of syrup of hellebore and the potion will turn into a translucent shade of brown is concocted correctly.

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Acknowledgments

■ Arianrhod Alchemical Essay (the-leaky-cauldron.org)
■ History of Alchemy (alchemyladb.com)
■ Misc. Alchemy Information (dandwiki.com)
■ Misc. Alchemy (harrypotterforseekers.com)
■ Philospher Stone (harrypotterwikia.com)
■ Latin Word List (the-orb.net)
■ Miscellaneous information (Wikipedia.org)

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