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The young girl possessed the old witch's confidence to such an extent that she assisted her in the most dangerous part of her science, the confection of love-philters and the making of charms, which had more than once caused her to be prosecuted by the officials of the Areopagus. The richest hetæræ consulted her about their desires and revenges, and she gave them the benefit of her knowledge.

Can cast the horoscope of any soldier about going into battle, and foretell his fate to a certainty." No. 4. "Madame Bushe, powerful clairvoyant and influencing medium. Has secrets for the obtaining of places desired under government, and love-philters for those who have been unfortunate in their attachments."

In consequence, he published several edicts, which may be found at length in the 'Capitulaire de Baluse. By these, every sort of magic, enchantment, and witchcraft was forbidden; and the punishment of death decreed against those who in any way evoked the devil compounded love-philters afflicted either man or woman with barrenness troubled the atmosphere excited tempests destroyed the fruits of the earth dried up the milk of cows, or tormented their fellow-creatures with sores and diseases.

Brown, R., sentinels of seals generally females; on the battles of seals; on the narwhal; on the occasional absence of the tusks in the female walrus; on the bladder-nose seal; on the colours of the sexes in Phoca Groenlandica; on the appreciation of music by seals; on plants used as love-philters, by North American women. Browne, Dr. Crichton, injury to infants during parturition.

He heard sounds of fiddle and fife from a roadside barn, and saw yellow light from its chinks; and then entering, he found many women dancing, old and young, and among them his affianced. Alas! I shall go to hell when I die." I could tell your Excellency dozens of such stories. But love-philters are among the commonest things to sell and buy.

"Yes, madame, she was taken to the chambre ardente, stretched upon the rack, and then she confessed." "Confessed what?" gasped Olympia. "She confessed to have sold her poudre de succession; to have foretold the future, and to have prepared love-philters." "I do not know that there is treason in drawing horoscopes and brewing love-philters," returned the countess, with a forced laugh.

When I was young I was loved by many and admired many women, but not one of them not even my wife, who died young, was more to me than a toy, a plaything; and now when I stretch out my hand for a girl, whose father I might very well be not for her own sake, but simply to serve my purpose and she refuses me, I feel as much disturbed, as much a fool as-as that dealer in love-philters, Paaker."

There were closed tents in which magical remedies were to be obtained, though their open sale was forbidden by the authorities, from love-philters to the wondrous fluid which, if rightly applied, would turn lead, copper, or silver to gold.

Thus Myrrhina lived until she was fifteen, spending the night in the Cerameicus and the day in the hut of an old woman of Thessaly who, in common with all her countrywomen enjoyed great fame as a witch, and assisted at births as well as sold love-philters, and retouched the faces of those who were fading.

Do you remember the sad little story of Cervantes' Licentiate, who, instead of a love-potion, drank a philter which made him think he was made of glass, fit emblem of a poor mad poet? ... It is love-philters that Dionea prepares. No; do not misunderstand; they do not give love of her, still less her love. Your seller of love-charms is as cold as ice, as pure as snow.

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