Beginning Potions' Essay Assignment

[Sable Thanasis-Pontin]

First, Second, and Third year Potions students are to write the following:

One essay on the process of extracting Flobberworm Mucus. After explaining the process, research one potion that uses it as an ingredient, listing what it is, if it counters anything (poison antidote, magical side effect, injury/illness, etc.) and any background on the potion's origins.

Due Tuesday, August 30th

[Sable Thanasis-Pontin]

Feel free to post the essay as a separate document in the Potions folder.

[Kay]

Flobberworms gives off mucus. It is utilized in the Wiggenweld Potion. It heals slight harm & arouses a person from a nap. It is a cure to the Draught of Living Death. There is some past on the Wiggenweld Potion. A ruler utilized this potion to arouse a princess who had been given the Draught of Living Death by the Hag Leticia Somnolens. The prince 1st put some of the potion on his lips & kissed the princess. "Wiggentree" is the name which in the United Kingdom is given to the Mountain Ash (a species of the genus Sorbus) because it has been used as an anti-witching device. "Wiggen" from old Breton means "strength". As for "weld", it is an English word which means "join together by heating to the point of melting"'. Thus, "Wiggenweld Potion" would mean "Welder Strength".