[Crowley's had a chance to properly read through the book without Hastur or the apocalypse interrupting in the past few weeks, and he's spent some of that time deciphering them just for the fun of it. Some of the prophecies are obvious, he picked out the ones that he was mentioned in quickly enough, and ones about the general state of the world were easy enough. The more specific ones are trickier.]

Willow bark's an analgesic, good for headaches before humans figured out aspirin. And the woman who owned the book last, she was at the airbase during the whole Armageddon business, had some lad with her wearing a witch hunter coat, that'd explain the pin and the flames.