Hallucinogenic Flying Ointment
Making hallucinogenic flying ointment: various recipes.
Flying ointment is an herbal hallucinogenic salve applied by witches for the purpose of soul-flight. I aim for this guide to provide a variety of recipes and ingredients to choose from, highlighting both psychoactive and non-psychoactive entheogens.
Historically accurate recipes
The Greek Egyptian magical papyri describes a religious consecrating oil producing visions called kentritis, the most likely ingredients being Verbena officinalis (vervain) and Mandragora officinalis (mandrake). It is also likely that because of the spread of the Mithras cult from Central Asia, and therefore their hallucinogens, that Amanita muscaria (fly agaric) may be a component in the kentritis oil.
I only found one mention of flying ointment in a grimoire, and it was comprised of multiple unnecessary herbs that had to be handgrown and picked in a complex ceremony. For simplicity’s sake, we may consider the only psychoactive herb in it: vervain. In essence, this ointment is comprised of a single entheogen.
EDIT: I forgot to mention that most grimoires also use hyssop as a consecrating oil. The Keys of Solomon use in the water and hyssop ceremony both vervain, sage, valerian, and hyssop.
A traditionally described ointment from reputable sources on the history of witchcraft. These sources describe two recipes.
Parsley and poplar leaves
This recipe contains no psychoactive ingredients, however parsley and poplar are sacred plants in the witchcraft tradition. Unless parsley and poplar are undiscovered hallucinogens ;)
2. Water parsnip, Acorus calamus (sweet flag), cinquefoil, Atropa belladonna (deadly nightshade), Papaver somniferum (opium/poppy)
One could make the authentic recipes described above, but there are many other options other than what the old books say. For example, although the uses of opium and fly agaric as ingredients in flying ointment is rather unsubstantiated, they are used as entheogens in other facets of European occultism (opium as incense in Liber Juratus for example) so it would not be far fetched or unauthentic to include them in your ointment.
A typical recipe for us might look like:
Add as much parsley, sweet flag, water parsnip, cinquefoil, and poplar leaves as you want. They aren’t poisonous or hallucinogenic so their inclusion is for religious symbolism more than anything.
If one is using the ointment for an indigenous American ritual like a mesada (Originating in the Andes mountains, translating as “altar ritual”) or velada (Mazatec Mexican origin, translating as “candle ritual”) which I would love to outline in a guide later, then it will be fitting to use:
This could also be used for European rituals as datura and brugmansia are in many ways more desirable because of their more hallucinogenic properties rather than sedative/toxic and because of their more consistency in effects. I made my first flying ointment with brugmansia, and it works just fine. It just isn’t entirely authentic.
Just know that you will be working with wax, placing it on your dishes, and wax is a gigantic pain in the ass to clean up. So if you make it you got a lot of scrubbing to do. Also, wear gloves when handling the herbage material and keep windows and doors of the room open to prevent fumes from intoxicating you. You might also want to wear one of those paper masks. This is potent stuff, and you don’t want to be meeting spirits in your kitchen just yet.
Melt the wax in a crock pot (Do not attempt it any other way, slow cooking is the safest. Using a stovetop creates highly volatile oils that can cause a wax fire very quickly).
Meanwhile, place foliage and oil in blender.
Blend the concoction and pour it into a small pot.
Heat the pot on low for an hour.
Strain the liquid from the herbs.
Pour a small portion of the melted wax into the oil, enough so that it becomes a thick consistency. But be careful: while the wax is melted it looks like liquid so you might underestimate how much wax you put in.
Place outside the fridge (because it might cool too quickly, meaning the wax wouldn’t dissolve into the oil), and when it is cool, pour the ointment. It will probably be enough to fill two mason jars! (That’s about 30 doses).
And then you’re done! Apply liberally, but work your way up the doses slowly. You can apply more if you aren’t feeling it. It’s not too strong, you aren’t likely to completely leave this world on the witches’ ointment. Next I’ll teach you guys how to make a witches’ brew! Tripping with purpose.
EDIT: Some are upset that I have declined to put a warning on this post. Some may even say it’s irresponsible. I justify this by saying that the toxicity of nightshades is known everywhere and it is impossible not to encounter the ever-present warning about their safety.
I chose not to beat the dead horse. If you cannot do any research beyond what you read in this post, then nightshades aren’t for you and you should face the consequences of your own actions. I’m not a babysitter, so I’m not responsible for your own safety and well-being. You are.
I think also that the ‘dangers’ of the Amanita muscaria mushroom are vastly overstated and warning people not to ingest fly agaric because other members of the family are poisonous is a misnomer. There has never been a death from fly agaric. There has never been a death from transdermal nightshade for that matter, if I may be bold enough to say.
(COPIED FROM AN OLD FORUM THREAD)