After making a small hole in the shell of the egg, a syringe containing what we are told is semen is injected into the yolk. There is no animal, dead or alive, in the video, Как Сделать uses a hen’s egg in place of the mare/ewe/cow’s womb. The title of the video is “ How to make a homunculus (Homunculus 1) ” and it shows the YouTuber (visible only as a pair of hands) conducting an experiment. The video has been watched more than thirteen million times, and reposted (at least in part) by many other YouTube users, often using titles such as “ Real or Fake ?”. In November 2015 a Russian YouTuber using the name Как Сделать uploaded their second video. No one in their right minds would attempt to replicate any of these experiments, especially not in the 21st century. Liber Vaccae also gives details other alchemic recipes – such as one for generating a swarm of bees from an animal corpse – most of which are similarly bizarre and gory. Once born, the homunculus should be transferred to a jar where it is fed on the blood of it’s slaughtered (via decapitation) mother. This version states that either a cow or a ewe (rather than a mare) would be the best host and that, once inseminated (using a mixture of semen and the alchemical “sun stone”), the beast should be kept in the dark and fed only on blood for the duration of the gestation. Liber Vaccae (“The Book of the Cow”) is an even older Alchemical text – a 12th century Spanish translation of a 9th century Arabic book entitled Kitab al-Nawamis (“The Book of Laws”) – gives a slightly different (or perhaps simply more detailed) recipe/formula for the creation of artificial, humanoid life. Paracelsus’ is by no means the only How-To guide for creating a such a creature to have survived however.
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