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@Freshbott2 Good question: but THAT I cannot tell you (except that the references to them in the texts of old Roman writers, Norse sagas etc were real! Certain African tribes at later dates also had such things). I cannot tell you what was in them really; because that knowledge is lost to modern science. It is all submerged in the mists of entheogenic lore! 🙂 I'd have to do a lot more research and read lots more books, but even then I doubt I'd find out any proper recipes, as all the knowledge of this is lost or secret!
Some people have speculated (that for the northern latitude potions) that they contained things like "magic mushrooms", so psilocybes, probably, then - even maybe a bit of fly agaric as well! 😝 Hallucinogens, then: plus something that increases adrenalin production (that would be the strength increasing part!) But, well, I am a little bit of a witch: and I can tell you, that none of these traditional - mixtures - contain just one thing, or two things. It's always a case of them being a mixture of a lot of things, hence "witch's brew"..😏
Honestly. There are sly (or more blatant) mentions of this type of strength potion all over traditional culture - even modern pop culture based on it! You ever read a couple of Asterix the Gaul comics? 🙂 You remember that there was a strength potion in that - that "Getafix" the druid manufactures? 😏 These comics are all meant to be humorous, but the actual things and history mentioned in them are real. And I bet you thought that comics writers, including French ones, just made stuff up! 😏😁
(There's a partial recipe for that one too, given in one of the comics. To my recollection, it contains mistletoe, and coal tar. Among other things. It's like I told you - they never give you the full recipe! 😁)
Hope that proved at least marginally instructive! 🙂 But sure: the "berserker" superhuman strength effect is real. It's mentioned in several sagas. It's similar to the massive reserves of strength some people find in crisis situations, so they can lift a car off a person. There would probably be a ritual to induce this in a traditional society, but you can be sure it would have involved some kind of drug preparation.
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