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passion for the man who, after pounding the Pizziingurdu, is able to 

 administer it to her in any sort of food. 



Satyrio'n was a favourite herb with magicians, sorceresses, 

 Witches, and herbahsts, who held it to be one of the most power- 

 ful incentives of amatory passions. Kircher relates the case of a 

 youth who, whenever he visited a certain corner of his garden, 

 became so inflamed with passionate longings, that, with the hope of 

 obtaining relief, he mentioned the circumstance to a friend, who, 

 upon examing the spot, found it overgrown with a species of 

 Satyrion, the odour from which had the effect of producing amatory 

 desires. 



The Mandrake, Carrot, Cyclamen, Purslain (^2>oo«), Valerian, 

 Navel-wort {Umbilicus Veneris), Wild Poppy {Papaver Argemone), 

 Anemone, Orchis odoratissima, O. cynosorckis, 0. tragorchis, O. triorchis, 

 and others of the same family, and Maidenhair Fern [Capillus 

 Veneris) have all of them the property of inspiring love. 



In Italy, Basil is considered potent to inspire love, and its 

 scent is thought to engender sympathy. Maidens think that it 

 will stop errant young men and cause them to love those from 

 whose hands they accept a sprig. In England, in olden times, the 

 leaves of the Periwinkle, when eaten by man and wife, were 

 supposed to cause them to love one another. An old name apper- 

 taining to this plant was that of the " Sorcerer's Violet," which was 

 given to it on account of its frequent use by wizards and quacks 

 in the manufacture of their charms against the Evil Eye and malign 

 spirits. The French knew it as the Violette des Sorciers, and the 

 Italians as Centocchio, or Hundred Eyes. 



In Poland, a plant called Troizicle, which has bluish leaves and 

 red flowers, has the reputation of causing love and forgetfulness of 

 the past, and of enabling him who employs it to go wherever he 

 desires. 



Helmontius speaks of a herb that when held in the palm of 

 the hand until it grows warm, will rapidly acquire the power of 

 detaining the hand of another until it not only grows warm, also, 

 but the owner becomes inflamed with love. He states that by its 

 use he inspired a dog with such love for himself, that he forsook a 

 kind mistress to follow him, a stranger. This herb is said to be 

 met with everywhere, but unfortunately the name is not given. 



Cumin is thought to possess a mystical power of retention : 

 hence it has found its way into many a love-philtre, as being able 

 to ensure fidelity and constancy in love. _ 



Among the plants and flowers to which the power of divination 

 has been ascribed, and which are consulted for the most part by 

 rustic maidens in affairs of the heart, are the Centaury, Bluet, or 

 Horseknot, the Starwort, the Ox-eye Daisy, the Dandelion, 

 Bachelor's Buttons, the Primrose, the Rose, the Poppy, the 

 Hypericum, the Orpine, the Yarrow, the Mugwort, the Thistle, the 

 Knotweed, Plantain, the Stem of the Bracken Fern, Four-leaved 



