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This is an old spell to turn the magician into a werewolf. It involves some hallucinogenic, poisonous, and now illegal herbs, and so is posted here for PURELY ACADEMIC interest. Please do not try this at home because I will bear no responsibility for health effects, arrests, or disappointment (because many old magics, like the flight of witches, have shown to have more likely been hallucinated.)

Time: Midnight, full moon
Space: At least 15 square feet, preferably in a forest.

Materials:
1.) Skin of a wolf (preferably whole, but some tales have just a belt of wolfskin.)
2.) Ointment (fat of a cat mixed with aconite, anise, bat's blood, camphor, opium and poplar leaves)
3.) Incense ingredients (a handful each of aloe, hemlock, poppy seeds, nightshade, and some gum resin.)
4.) a cauldron
5.) dry pine and poplar branches (for firewood)

Directions:
1.) Draw a circle six feet across, and another circle outside of it 14 feet across.
2.) Set up the cauldron over a fire in the middle of the small (6ft wide) circle.
3.) Boil water and mix the incense mixture into the cauldron.
4.) Breathe in the fumes and chant the following:
"Elect of all devilish hosts
Werewolves, vampires, satyrs, and ghosts!
I pray you to send hither,
the great grey shape that makes men shiver!
Come! Come! Come!"
5.) Rub the ointment onto one's body and put on the wolfskin.
6.) Kneel down into the larger circle and chant, "I implore thee unparalleled Phantom of Darkness to make me a werewolf" repeatedly until the fire dies out or eldrich shrieks and groans announce a dark presence.
7.) Afterwards, the magician will turn into wolf, back to human form during the day, and back into wolf form every night that one wears the now enchanted wolfskin.

Sources:
Lamb, Nancy. "Creatures of the Night." New York: Scholastic, 1982.
Steiger, Brad. "The Werewolf Book." Detroit: Visible Ink P, 1999.
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