Secret Spells & Curious Charms

It's time for another one of my go-to Halloween children's books.
"Secret Spells & Curious Charms" by Monika Beisner, is sweetly illustrated and contains a collection of poems and folk-charms that I have used as a reference for whenever I need to add a spell to my Halloween decorations. Some are easier to follow than others.

"To travel from one place to another

by flying as fast as the fastest hawk:

take snow and boil it with oil 

on a fire of two kinds of wood

(one white, the other red).

Then put the mixture in a bag

made from a sheep's bladder.

When this has been in the bladder

for a moon and a half,

pour it over charcoal, 

and when it is all mixed together

pound it to powder on an alabaster table.

Keep the powder in a horn.

When you want to fly, take a pinch of the powder

and place it within the pages of a book.

Put the book in your robe

in a pocket which has been prepared for it.

Then take the book, sit with it in your hand,

and think of the place to which you are to fly.

At first this will take a long time.

When you are ready to fly and feel tired, then you must say

'SISPI, SISPI',

and you will instantly be at your destination.

When you want to return home, you must say

'ITTSS, ITTSS',

and you will be back."

"Who kills a spider,

Bad luck betides her."

"Beware of that man,

Be he friend or brother,

Whose hair is one color

And mustache another."

"The fig tree is her staff, folks say;

Destroy it not in any way.

Upon it lies a dreadful curse,

Who plucks a leaf will need a hearse."

There is also a spell to "cause love between two people" and one "to be revenged upon one who had done you harm". Attempt at your own risk.