Most of them were little more than recipes or instructions: How to prepare a tea that would cure nausea, how to make a poultice for a leg wound, how to keep berries picked in October from spoiling by November. But then there were the more serious magicks as well. These included: · Shapeshifting · Communicating with the dead · Enchanting a spear so it would never miss its target · Creating a cup that would never empty of mead · Traveling via an astral body · Invisibility · Invulnerability in battle · Passing into the Otherworld, or the realm of the sidh A few of the incantations were missing key words; despite Mongfind’s precautions, parts of the manuscript had blurred with the passage time. A few sections were spattered with something dark that covered the writing—probably Mongfind’s own blood, coughed out as her lungs had failed her over that long final winter.
