Giambattista della Porta: The Professor of Secrets

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Giambattista della Porta published a recipe in 1558 that proved witches weren't flying to sabbaths but hallucinating on herbs rubbed into their skin. The Church silenced him. He removed the recipe. In 1960, a German professor tested it on himself and confirmed it worked.

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