Description
L'Albert Moderne - Grimoire Book of 1777
Published by the Veuve Duchesne, Bookseller rue St Jacques, Au temple du Goût
By Pons Augustin Alletz (1703-1785)
In his preface he forbids himself to reproduce the secrets that challenge reason or those that could be misused.
He thus stands out completely from the Grand Albert, whose sulphurous name he borrows, which was a grimoire of popular magic very widespread in the countryside despite its prohibition by the Church.
Pons uses the aura of the Grand Albert to sell his Modern Albert but remaining much wiser.
The book is filled with many amazing recipes that go from the care for corns to the healing of cancer, recipes that allow you to vary the colors of roses, the way to make a natural dial to know what time it is without watch or dial etc...
Did you know, for example, that epilepsy could be cured with a foot bath from a hot decoction of turnip root... Or that figs roasted on charcoal are to be applied to hemorrhoids to make them disappear... That mole’s blood is effective against warts... Or a bloodletting in the jugular to bring a drowning person back to life!
Against scabies, you should take in the morning on an empty stomach, a bowl of soapwort powder or crayfish eyes...
To eliminate freckles, it is necessary to mix the blood of a hare not stunned, not choked, with the urine of the person with freckles to be applied on the face.
There is also the recipe of the elixir of long life, recipes for carrot jam, chocolate cream, a recipe to regrow hair, the invention of Kub broth before time etc!
Or simply how to revive a drowned by blowing tobacco in his nostrils...
Full leather binding - 10x17 cm
24 pages numbered in Roman numerals including the preface and the table of contents + 312 pages.
Wormholes in the margin, not hindering reading
Happy reading!
