elixir vitae
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Dee, at the same time, pretended to be in possession of the elixir vitae, which he stated he had found among the ruins of Glastonbury Abbey, in Somersetshire.
From Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 3 by Charles Mackay
Continuing his travels, he proceeded through Prussia and Austria into Turkey, Egypt, and Tatary, and thence returning to Constantinople, learned, as he boasted, the art of transmutation, and became possessed of the elixir vitae.
From Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 3 by Charles Mackay
From this sprang the search, so long continued and still pursued, for the elixir vitae, or water of life, which has led thousands to pretend to it and millions to believe in it.
From Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 3 by Charles Mackay
By rights the jar should have contained quite a fortnight's supply of his elixir vitae: and it took him one or two seconds to grasp the full significance of that which had befallen him.
From The Great Amulet by Maud Diver
He was thought to possess a knowledge of all the sciences, and, like Artephius, to have discovered the elixir vitae.
From Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 3 by Charles Mackay
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