Funny Holidays - Brew a Potion Day

Healers of ancient Rus' used potions based on medicinal herbs and grains to heal the sick. Plant elixirs were used as poisons in the courts of kings, love spells, or, conversely, destroying relationships. January 19th is Potion Brewing Day. In honor of this comic holiday, you can easily create a love potion or a tincture of eternal youth. Gods in many world religions possessed immortality. To do this, they only had to introduce a special drink into their diet. Thus, the gods of Ancient Greece ate ambrosia, Ancient India - amrita, Iran - ha omu, and Ancient Egypt drank the water of immortality. In Russian fairy tales there are references to miraculous rejuvenation with the help of apples and boiling milk. Koschey the Immortal received the nickname for his unique characteristics. Is it really possible to make an elixir that prolongs life? In the film "The Recipe for Her Youth" the heroine L. Gurchenko tells the audience about the remedy of the medieval alchemist - Hieronymus Makropoulos. With the help of this potion, the body rejuvenates, and the person begins to live forever. The singer Emilia, the daughter of an alchemist, at 300 years old, looked 30, no older. I would like to use the elixir recipe to prepare a magical drink on January 19 in honor of Brew a Potion Day. But its ingredients are quite difficult to find. Judge for yourself, how can you get crocodile tears without risking your life? On Potion Brewing Day, women who imagine themselves to be witches prepare drinks that arouse love from the opposite sex. In ancient times, their obligatory component was mandrake root. In shape it resembles a human figure. Therefore, the root of the perennial plant, which was also called the witch’s potion, was credited with healing and magical powers. The magical properties of the drinks are given not only by the unique composition, but also by the magic words spoken during the brewing process - spells. This procedure is akin to household magic, and the preparation of elixirs itself is very reminiscent of the creation of healing potions by healers in Rus'. The witches spoke both to the remedy itself, putting the necessary information message, and to the sick organs of the patients: joints, teeth, etc. The ancient Druids knew many recipes for herbal potions. Enchanted potions are actively used for treatment by shamans of Mexico, aborigines of the USA and Australia, and representatives of proto-civilization - wild tribes living in the wilds of the Amazon and inaccessible areas of Africa. Their recipes cannot be used by residents of central Russia - most herbs, roots and plant seeds are endemic. Therefore, those who celebrate Brew a Potion Day brew magical elixirs on January 19 using improvised means, relying on potions books and their own intuition.