Editing Flying ointment (section)

== Composition ==
[[File:Illustration Atropa bella-donna0.jpg|thumb|Ingredient: Deadly Nightshade, ''[[Atropa belladonna]]'']]
[[File:239 Hyoscyamus niger L.jpg|thumb|Ingredient: Black Henbane, ''[[Hyoscyamus niger]]'']]
[[File:Goya - Caprichos (68).jpg|thumb|Witches flying to the Sabbath: Capricho No. 68: ''Linda maestra'' (Pretty teacher) by [[Francisco Goya]] – from the series [[Los Caprichos]] ]]

Poisonous ingredients listed in works on ethnobotany include: [[Atropa belladonna|belladonna]],<ref>Schultes, Richard Evans; Hofmann, Albert (1979). ''The Botany and Chemistry of Hallucinogens'' (2nd ed.). Springfield Illinois: Charles C. Thomas. pps. 261-4.</ref> [[Scopolia carniolica|henbane bell]], [[Datura stramonium|jimson weed]], [[Hyoscyamus niger|black henbane]], [[Mandragora (genus)|mandrake]], [[Conium maculatum|hemlock]], and/or [[Aconitum|wolfsbane]],<ref>Rätsch, Christian, ''The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants: Ethnopharmacology and Its Applications'' pub. Park Street Press 2005</ref><ref>Schultes, Richard Evans; Albert Hofmann (1979). ''Plants of the Gods: Origins of Hallucinogenic Use'' New York: McGraw-Hill. {{ISBN|0-07-056089-7}}.</ref><ref>Hansen, Harold A. ''The Witch's Garden'' pub. Unity Press 1978 {{ISBN|978-0913300473}}</ref> most of which contain [[atropine]], [[hyoscyamine]], and/or [[scopolamine]].<ref>Furst, Peter T. ''Hallucinogens and Culture'' pub. Chandler and Sharp 1976 (volume in series on cross-cultural themes) p.138.</ref> Scopolamine can cause psychotropic effects when absorbed [[transdermal]]ly.<ref>Sollmann, Torald, ''A Manual of Pharmacology and Its Applications to Therapeutics and Toxicology''. 8th edition. Pub. W.B. Saunders, Philadelphia and London 1957.</ref> These [[Tropane alkaloid#Classification|tropane alkaloids]] are classified as [[deliriants]] in regards to their [[psychoactive]] effects.

[[Francis Bacon]] (attributed as "Lord Verulam") listed the ingredients of the witches ointment as "[[Human fat|the fat of children]] digged out of their graves, of juices of [[Celery#Wild|smallage]], [[Aconitum|wolfe-bane]], and [[Potentilla|cinque foil]], mingled with the meal of [[Wheat flour|fine wheat]]."<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |year=1970 |title=The Encyclopedia of the Occult |publisher=Bracken Books |url=https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.69154/2015.69154.The-Encyclopedia-Of-The-Occult#page/n158/mode/1up |page=306 |author=Lewis Spence |via=Internet Archive}}</ref>