Inscription on the egg:

Eklutos prolego anoixis oioskuphion agnostos
Use extreme caution when opening this egg-shaped object

Exothen, alexo achrestos artitokos ethnos.
Finally i have received a newborn host


The ravaging man-beast
Do not leave this beast for dead
Or two will rise up in its stead
Then four more will follow you
And eight, sixteen and thirty-two
Until you face a man-beast legion
Laying waste unto your region


When demon leech o’ertakes a man
To use his body ill
And nothing in your conjuring
Will break him to your will
When countless others stand to fall
Lest demon be remed in
Then you must count the greater good
Longside the greater sin.
For one way sure to mark thee
That the demon still shall lie
Is to look unto the demon’s source –
The human host must die

To stop a demon in his tracks
Although he will not stay
To hold a demon fast until
You make your getaway,
Use banyan root and say these words
“Be still” and like the tree,
his limbs will root into the ground
and you, dear, will be free

to calm a demon:

plant a garden filled with these:
mugwort, moonwort, madwort three
then brew a potion, sure to please
the heart of any demon man
of this potion, let him sup
imtil he’s drained his wassail cup
tnen let him sleep, perchance to dream
of kinder times than now they seem
if this can’t lull him, nothing can

Near-death potion:

to pattern death in every way
in breath, in heart, in soul
to bring a loved one to the point
when even skin grows cold
then mark ye well the potion
which on these pages lies,
from sun to sun, or moon to moon
the one who drinks it, dies

to ask for help:

Kindred spirits, every one, listen to our call
Be ye here or be ye gone, we need you, one and all
In our presence, be it known, a demon walks once more
We seek your help to vanquish it to where it dwelled before
If one among you has the means to deal
This fateful blow
Appear before us, and divulge the secrets
That you know

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