she vsed hath the practicke paine / Of this false footman ….

We now arrive at the part that everybody’s been waiting for: the theory is done, the spiritual preparation is underway, and the implements have been blessed; now how do we start casting spells? / Well, that’s the problem. We don’t cast spells, at least not on my watch. The word sounds so childish and so puellile that it doesn’t deserve to be used in connection with the processes of Catholic magic, no matter how simple.

It is necessary to experimentise on young seedlings about half an inch or rather less in height

We snuck to the side of the house, and through a giant trellis we could see the glorious sparkling water in a half inground, half aboveground pool, complete with a beach ball and other floaty things.