General medicine
(FAINT TRICKLING OF WATER)
(GENTLE RAIN FALLING)
(WIND HOWLS)
**Sensor activated**
EERIE CHANTING ENGLISH WOMEN: Let it ache thee no more. Let it ache thee no more. Let it ache thee no more.
VARIOUS ENGLISH WOMEN: Bishopwort. Lupin. Viper’s bugloss. The strawberry plant. Mandrake. The cloved wenwort. Earth rime. Henbane. Blackberry. Pennyroyal. Lavender. Wormwood.
(CLUCKING CHICKENS)
EERIE CHANTING ENGLISH WOMEN: Let it ache thee no more. Let it ache thee no more. Let it ache thee no more.
OLDER EDUCATED ENGLISHMAN: Learn the high and marvellous virtue of herbs. Know how inestimable a preservative to the health of man God hath provided, growing every day at our hand. Use the effects with reverence and give thanks to thy Maker celestial.
(SOFT CLINKING OF METAL)
MIDDLE-AGED IRISHMAN: Against madness named mania: Bugloss, the root and the herb chopped together and distilled in the beginning of June. In the morning and at night, drink of the same water. It’s good against the muck in the head. The same water comforteth the brains, therefore it is good for them that be out of their wits.
(WIND HOWLS)
(GRINDING OF PESTLE AGAINST MORTAR)
MIDDLE-AGED EDUCATED ENGLISHMAN: The great houndstongue grows almost everywhere by highways and untoiled ground. The small houndstongue groweth very plentifully by the wayside as you ride Colchester Highway from London ward.
(GRINDING CONTINUES)
MIDDLE-AGED SCOTTISH WOMAN: Watermint. They grow in moist and watery places, as in meadows near unto ditches that have water in them, and by rivers.
OLDER EDUCATED ENGLISHMAN: Henbane delights most to grow in saturnine places and whole cartloads of it may be found near the places where they empty the common Jakes.
MIDDLE-AGED COCKNEY WOMAN: Against the falling sickness named epilepsia: water of peony roses. The best part and time of this distillation is the roses when they be ripe and fully well in their season. A person that hath fallen of the palsy, that he hath lost his speech, he shall drink of the same water an ounce, and it shall cause him to speak again, and he shall become whole.
(A LID IS PLACED ON A METAL POT)
MIDDLE-AGED ENGLISHMAN: Against itch on the bollocks, water of the great sage. It’s good also against the itch of a man's cods when they be washed therewith and let dry again by themself.
(METAL POTS CANK AGAINST EACH OTHER)
OLDER EDUCATED ENGLISHMAN: Mandrake hath a predominant cold faculty. The juice drawn forth of the roots, dried and taken in small quantity purgeth the belly exceedingly from phlegm and melancholic humours.
(PESTLE GRINDS AGAINST MORTAR)
YOUNG ENGLISH WOMAN: Betony. For them that be fearful give two drams of powder hereof with warm water and as much wine at the time that the fear cometh.
(SWIRLING OF WATER)
MIDDLE-AGED EDUCATED ENGLISHMAN: To make folk merry at ye table, take four leaves and four roots of vervain in wine, then sprinkle the wine all about the house where the eating is, and they shall be all merry.
(METAL BUCKET IS PLACED ON THE FLOOR)
EUROPEAN MAN: Water of borage drunk in the morning and at night is very good for the bloody flux named dysentery.
(PESTLE GRINDS AGAINST MORTAR)
MIDDLE-AGED IRISHMAN: Wormwood maketh one piss well. It is good for the wind and pain of the stomach and the belly.
WORKING-CLASS ENGLISH WOMAN: Rhubarb purgeth fourth choleric and naughty humours and also stays the overmuch flowing of the monthly sickness and stoppeth blood in any part of the body, especially that which cometh through the bladder.
OLDER EDUCATED ENGLISHMAN: Henbane. It is good for the cough, runnings of ye eyes and other aches.
EERIE CHANTING ENGLISH WOMEN: Let it ache thee no more. Let it ache thee no more. Let it ache thee no more.
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Witches corner
(DISTANT BIRD CALL)
(GRINDING OF PESTLE AGAINST MORTAR)
(EERIE REPETITIVE BIRD CALL)
(GRINDING OF PESTLE AND MORTAR CONTINUES)
(DISTANT NIGHT CALLS OF CRICKETS AND FROGS)
(SCRAPING OF METAL ACROSS COBBLESTONES)
(DISTANT CHATTER AND LAUGHTER)
(THE WIND HOWLS)
(A FIRE CRACKLES)
(METAL PANS CLANG AGAINST EACH OTHER)
(EERIE REPETITIVE BIRD CALL)
(METAL TOOLS RATTLE)
(VOICES IN THE DISTANCE)
(ROARING HUM RISES AND FALLS…AND AGAIN)
(A WOMAN WIMPERS AND SPLUTTERS)
(CRICKETS AND FROGS. AN EERIE BIRD CALL)
(THE GRINDING CONTINUES)
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