pulling on phalanges , penises , veins , arteries , entrails , esophagi , tails , and pieces of extracted skeleton , while simultaneously pressing , tapping , prodding , or gripping beating hearts , breathing lungs , digesting stomach sacs , churning livers , quivering kidneys , trembling spleens , expanding bladders , and hundreds of various glands , the tantradox controlled the weather with a secret tactile language of applied touches , numbered repetitions , and esoteric sequential orders which they had invented long ago and were known by none save the severed head of the weather warlock .