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Updated: July 2, 2025
Julia remained a long time silent; but her heaving breast and flashing eyes would have betrayed, to one who could have seen, the wound her vanity had sustained. 'They tell me thou art a Thessalian, said she, at last breaking silence. 'And truly! 'Thessaly is the land of magic and of witches, of talismans and of love-philtres, said Julia.
Craig asked the Guru to explain the symbols, to which he replied with a smile: "The snake represents eternity, the star involution and evolution of the soul, while the winged sphere eh, well, that represents something else. Do you come to learn of the faith?" The book, as we turned over its pages, gave directions for preparing everything from food to love-philtres and the elixir of life.
Craig asked the Guru to explain the symbols, to which he replied with a smile: "The snake represents eternity, the star involution and evolution of the soul, while the winged sphere eh, well, that represents something else. Do you come to learn of the faith?" The book, as we turned, over its pages, gave directions for preparing everything from food to love-philtres and the elixir of life.
He whose little barque is the first to approach the girl will be her future husband; but, on the other hand, should an unwelcome suitor seem likely to be the first, she blows against it, and so, by impeding its progress, allows the favoured barque to win. In very early times flowers were mcuh in request as love-philtres, various allusions to which occur in the literature of most ages.
Vervain has long been in repute as a love-philtre, and in Germany now-a-days endive-seed is sold for its supposed power to influence the affections. The root of the male fern was in years gone by used in love-philtres, and hence the following allusion: "'Twas the maiden's matchless beauty That drew my heart a-nigh; Not the fern-root potion, But the glance of her blue eye."
That she should at my exhortation present the bulk of her property to her sons and leave me nothing, although before her marriage with myself she had shown them no special generosity? What a criminal use of love-philtres! or perhaps I had better call it a generous action which has not received its deserts!
Are the plans of men to be upset by your baby face, and a king-dom lost because a little fool chooses to play with poison as a child with fire?" "Poison?" she screamed. She had been facing him with whitening lips, and now the little breath that she had left went from her in a sharp cry. "Not poison; love-philtres! To win him back! Love-philtres, can you not hear?" "Love-philtres!"
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