Editing Flying ointment (section)

{{short description|Hallucinogenic salve used in the practice of witchcraft}}
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[[File:Preparation for the Witches' Sabbath (David Teniers II).jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|''Preparation for the Witches' Sabbath'' by [[David Teniers the Younger]]. Note on the left an older witch reading from a [[grimoire]] while anointing the buttocks of a young witch about to fly to the sabbath upon an inverted [[besom]] with a candle upon its twigs]]
[[File:The witches' Sabbath, by Frans Francken II.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|A [[Witches' Sabbath]] by [[Frans Francken the Younger]]. Note on extreme right pots of magic ointment and older witch applying ointment to back of naked younger witch]]
'''Flying ointment''' is a [[Hallucinogens#Deliriants|hallucinogenic]] [[ointment]] said to have been used by [[witch]]es in the practice of [[European witchcraft]] from at least as far back as the [[Early Modern]] period, when detailed recipes for such preparations were first recorded and when their usage spread to colonial North America.