ABSTRACT
Take a new vessel, and throw the bird into it, and with it put two drachms of red lime and one drachm of wood ashes, and boil it in water until it is parboiled. Then take out the bird. Put the head on one side, and the right pinion on one side. Remove one section of it, and place it in a vessel of wine, and whosoever drinketh thereof will become drunk. The left pinion is good for the man who is in thrall to his wife; remove one section of the bird and set it in oil, and let the man drink it, and he shall be free. Tie up the right shoulder in a piece of new rag, and hang it up over a woman who is ill in her body, and she shall have relief. Steep its tongue in rose water for five days, and tie it up in buffalo skin, and hold it in thy hand, and the dogs will not bark at thee. Dry its skull, and macerate it in oil, and rub it on any part of the body thou wishest, and it will destroy the hair. Dry a bone of the back in the shade, and pound it, and pour oil of violets over it, and [if thou rubbest it on any.part of the body] the hair will grow. Having salted the heart of this bird with Indian salt, tie it in a lion's skin, and give it to a woman whose child will not
Fol. 281 b. come forth from her. I Let her grasp it in her left hand, and her child will descend from her womb straightway. If a man drink the lungs of the bird in very bitter water, he will not be able to attempt to copulate all the days of his life. If its liver be pounded and mixed with crocus, it is good for the lungs and the heart, and the spleen ('). If a man hangeth up the left wing over himself on the night of his wedding, nothing will be done. Mix its right side (or, loin) with Spahn! eye-paint, and
