What are the simples the witches want?
Vinegar, whisky, cider, wine, White horse-radish and parsley plant, Tin and tallow and turpentine. Nein?
What are the drugs for the devil-spells?
Ague and canker and cholera?
Juniper juices and elder bells, Arsenic, ipecac, arnica. Ja?
What are the herbs that the hexes need?
What are the deadliest things there are?
Pointy plaintain and jimpson weed, Tar and tobacco and cinnabar. Nicht wahr?
What are the venoms that must be found?
Lye and vitriol, sugar of lead, Belladonna and graveyard ground.
What are the words that must be said? Trotter Head!
Ix, ux, dullix, from lungs and liver, Cast it back on the lying tongues.
MARTHA E. KELLER (1902–1971) was an American poet. Coming from a family of writers, she was inspired…
