"Witches' broth" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... cauldron two men are bending, stirring a witches' broth to charm man's eye. One of the wooden paddles brings up a mass from the heavy liquid. It is silk, glistening rich, of the colour of melted rubies. Upstairs the looms are making it into a damask background onto which are thrown the garlands Boucher drew and Tessier ...
— The Tapestry Book • Helen Churchill Candee
... most poisonous of a suspicious family (the Umbelliferae), "the great Hemlocke doubtlesse is not possessed of any one good facultie, as appeareth by his lothsome smell and other apparent signes," and with this evil character the Hemlock was considered to be only fit for an ingredient of witches' broth— ...
— The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare • Henry Nicholson Ellacombe |
