How to Make Yourself Invisible

1560

“If thou wilt be made inuisible. Take the stone, which is called Ophethalmius, and wrappe it in the leafe of the Laurell, or Baye tree, & it is called Lapis obtelmicus, whose color is not named, for it is of many colours, and it is of such vertu, that it blindeth the sightes of them that stand about.”

The Boke of Secretes of Albertus Magnus

At last, the secret of invisibility: just decorate yourself with foliage and shiny opals, and bystanders will be too dazzled by your bling to see you—or anything else.