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Sparks will then be given out , and if those sparks appear crimson the test is satisfactorily done . `` No. 3 . Take a human skull -- preferably that of some person who has met with an unnatural end , pour on it a single drop of fresh , human blood -- place it on a couch , and go to sleep with the back part of the head resting on it . 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 .