love potion

plural love potions

1. A drink supposed to have the magic power to make the drinker fall in love with a specified person.

   One love potion was composed of the powdered navel string of a new-born baby boy.

   1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 82

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   I took my troubles down to Madame Ruth You know that gypsy with the gold-capped tooth She's got a pad down on Thirty-Fourth and Vine Sellin' little bottles of Love Potion Number Nine.

   1959, Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, “Love Potion No. 9”, performed by The Clovers

   Cuttle-fish, spiced oysters, sea hedge-hogs, and lobsters were among the ingredients of love-potions that reputed thaumaturgist Apuleius [...] was accused of have prepared in order to win the love of a widow.

   1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 72

   Synonyms: love powder, love philtre, philtre, philter