Six things you can offer a witch?

Factual Questions
1

I’ve been reading a lot of articles about folklore lately, and not taking enough notes. Somewhere along the line I stumbled upon a list of six things, one of which you’d better have when you visit a witch.

To the best of my memory they were “food, booze, tobacco, sex, death, or love,” but I’m not sure anymore. I’d really like to remember.

My brain is so scrambled that I can’t remember if this was cited in a scholarly article or if it was something a blogger said off the hip. Does it sound to anyone like a familiar quotation?

2

Considering how much of witch lore is made up out of fragments and speculation, the 6 things list is probably isolated to one book or article.

Not a familiar quote to me and I have studied witchcraft lore at 2 different points in my life.

3

Morticia Addams would likely offer up henbane and eye of Newt as two of them.

4

Only reference I can find is in ‘How To Train Your Dragon’.

The Roman Shield
The ticking thing
The arrow from the Land-that-does-not-exist.
The key that opens all locks
The heart’s stone
The second best sword

5

Food works pretty good for me. Just sayin’…

Although booze is also a good choice and love is fantastic, but it has to be the real true thing for that last one.

6

I know some witches.

Can’t say I ever heard the OP’s quote, but I’m sure that they wouldn’t mind if you had MONEY when you visited them. I’m sure they’d prefer it to DEATH.

7

In my experience, weed should probably fit in there somewhere.

8

Stevie Nicks Mix Tape.

9

Which witch?

10

Small rocks!

A duck!

11

An offer to “stir her cauldron”

An offer to “pet her cat”

A ride on your “broomstick” (nothing to do with Doper Broomstick)

12

From Honest Lewis:

13

thank you!

14

Brilliant!

As for the OP, it’s a first for me as well. I wonder is it a poetic thing or practical advice?

15

A bell, a book, a candle…and three other things.

16

Ooooo!

17

OK…

My question is, though, what exactly is the “unanständige Gebärde”?

18

I believe that Coleridge translated it as "a thrust of his codpiece-clad genitals"