Internet Yeast Infection Cure or Ingredient from Shakespearean Witches’ Brew

Double, double toil and trouble; Monistat burn and cauldron bubble.

Hallie Pritts
The Belladonna Comedy

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1. Clove of Garlic, Peeled and Pierced with a Knife

2. Colloidal Silver

3. Eye of Newt

4. Fermented Milk of Cow (or Goat) Frozen into the Finger of a Glove

5. Fillet of a Fenny Snake

6. Calendula Oil

7. Gall of Goat

8. A Tiger’s Chaudron (may refer to a tiger’s entrails, or the plant, Lady’s Mantle)

9. The Plant, Lady’s Mantle

10. Apple Cider Vinegar

11. Toad, that under cold stone,
Days and nights has thirty-one;
Swelter’d venom sleeping got

12. Pessary of Boric Acid

13. Oregano Essential Oil

14. The Ravin’d Salt Sea Shark

15. Sea Salt Bath

16. Scale of Dragon (may refer to the herb, tarragon)

17. The Herb, Tarragon

18. Blind Worm’s Sting

19. Abstaining from “blind worm’s sting.”

20. Fluconazole

Ingredient from Shakespearean Witches’ Brew: 3, 5, 7, 11, 14, 18

Internet Yeast Infection Cure: 1, 2, 4, 6, 10, 12, 13, 15, 19, 20

Both: 8–9, 16–17

Hallie Pritts is a writer from Pittsburgh. Find her in McSweeney’s, The Belladonna, Points in Case, Off Assignment, and @halliepritts on Twitter. She’s currently working on a thriller.

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Sewanee Writers alum. NZ writer-in-residence. @McSweeney's @TheBelladonna @OffAssignment @PointsinCase Je parle français.