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If you are awakened , at the second hour after midnight , by hearing a great commotion close at hand , and the room is then discovered to be full of crimson light , the test is satisfactorily fulfilled . `` No. 4 . Take half a score of the berries of enchanter 's nightshade , -LSB- 15 -RSB- two ounces of hemlock leaves in powder , and one ounce of red sorrel leaves . Heat them in an oven for two hours , pound them together , in a mortar , and at midnight boil them in water . As soon as the contents begin to bubble , remove them from the fire and stand them in a dark place ; and if the experiment is to prove satisfactory , three bubbles of luminous green light will rise simultaneously from the water and burst . `` No. 5 . In the above preparation after the test described , soak a hazel twig , fashioned in the shape of a fork .