Witches' Mummy was a potion ingredient with an unknown effect. It could have referred to a mummy belonging to a witch, a mummy created by a witch, or possibly a mummified witch. The phrase is featured in the song "Something Wicked This Way Comes".[1]
Behind the scenes[]
- Mummia (historically, "mummy") refers to several different preparations in the history of medicine, originally a kind of natural bitumen found in Western Asia, but later, due to misinterpretation, the term started to refer to an esudate scraped out from embalmed Egyptian mummies used as an ineffective drug.[2]
Appearances[]
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (film) (First mentioned)
