The medieval witches’ flying ointment has become an important symbol of modern traditional witchcraft and entheogenic ritual practice.  It has come to represent the witching herbs and the altered states of consciousness that they create, as well as their folkloric association to the Witches’ Sabbath.  The plant’s mentioned in the recipes of medieval flying ointments are the very same plants that we seek to connect with on the Poison Path; deadly nightshade, wolfsbane, poppy and more.  Each of these plants has their own unique spirit, and offers some very specialized characteristics of interest to the occult herbalist.