58 The first chemists and doctors of Europe.

"Welcome all to the Abracadabra show. I, your host, Mr ASMR will be reading a transcript of a lecture done in Trinity University in Dublin Ireland in 1953 By James Garcia. It was read on the night of Halloween. "So sit back and relax and let us go into the twilight world of witches. There's only one night a year a witch will absolutely hate, one that will make them grind their teeth and twist their hair. All the others are magic for them of course, but for one night all witches will lay low as a fox in hunting season. "And that night is the night of Halloween. "The giddy funfair of it will send a cold shiver up their spines, their noses will crease crooked at the thought of cauldrons and spells and slimy broom sticks. "They will scream at the sight of children trick or treating, groan when pumpkins are hung from doors and weep at the mention of black cats. "Because witches are not really witches, all that stuff is what comes from comic books and cinema. From the fickle minds of the masses and what they think is spooky history. "No, they will not have anything to do with all that pantomime and superstition, because a real witch is something completely different, for they are in fact a daughter of nature. A guardian of the mysteries and they will roll their eyes at such foolishness as Halloween. "Yes, these fine daughters will stay well away from all that fancy dress and nonsense and instead smile to theirselves about how it all really started way back in the bog lands and forests of dark Europe. "They will croon cat like with pleasure at how they were the first to stumble upon the revelations that the mushrooms and roots could give them. How it could throw open the doors of the mind and let in the vase timeless universe with all its beautiful bewilderment. "But as with all confusions of the senses there comes with it a deep reflection of the reality that is around them. Of the other dimensions that hides itself just below the surface of things and the beings that dwell there. Yes they will giggle with pride at being the first to have worked out that the mind with the aid of these's chemicals could dance and skip along the fine ribbon of time and space itself, and with exotic combinations found it gave them the ability to peek into the minds of others and glimpse the shadow of looming futures. "They really were the first to discover that this sacred knowledge gave a new awareness of reality, and so empowered them to become the first chemists and doctors of Europe…"