수천년에 걸친 성적인 도구이상의 사랑의 묘약들. Love Potions through the Ages, by Harry E. Wedeck

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삼천년전 즉 수천년전부터 ,이집트 그리크 로마시대 그리고 동양및 인도 ,나아가서 중세에서 그다음의 현대까지의 사람들의 성적도구이상의 사랑의 묘약에 대해서 기술하여 여러 조각상을 삽화하여 설명한 책으로 미국 뉴욕대학교 강사가 쓴책.
LOVE POTIONS
THROUGH THE AGES
A Study of Amatory Devices and Mores

HARRY E. WEDECK

Lecturer in Classics, Brooklyn College of the City University, N. Y.

Fellow, International Institute of Arts and Letters

THE CITADEL PRESS


NEW YORK
FIRST PAPERBOUND EDITION
Published by The Citadel Press
222 Park Avenue South, New York 3, N. Y.
？ Copyright, 1963
by Philosophical Library, Inc.
Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 62？18549
All rights reserved.
Printed in the United States of America

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수천년에 걸친 성적인 도구이상의 사랑의 묘약들. Love Potions through the Ages, by Harry E. Wedeck
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION ix

I ANTIQUITY 1

Erotic cults. Rites, Periapts. Phallic symbols. Ceremonials. Concepts. Greece.
Asia Minor. Egypt. Literary and historical testimony. Erotic manifestations in
various ethnic areas. Search for amatory stimulants. Condemnation of pagan
mores. Biblical instances. Sacredness of genitalia. Herodotus on Egyptian cults.
Bacchic cult in European countries. Pervasiveness of phallus. Phallic emblems.
Biblical references. Incantations. Spells. Philtres. Egyptian love song. Near East.
Hittite ritual. Babylon. Canaanites. Greece and Rome. Biblical ethics. Hellenistic
Age. Baths. Phallic food. Drillipotae. Yellow. Figurae Veneris. Erotic poems.
Phallic divinities. Philodemus of Gadara. Dress. Athens. Panders. Biblical―
phallic. Power of woman. Woman as an evil. Aphrodite. Love as an end.
Initiation. Rites of Venus. Essence of love. Mysticism. Priapic. Asia Minor.
Variant names. Generation. Talisman. Floral.
II GREEK 67

Plato. Dioscorides. Nonnus. Theodora. Antonina. Belisarius. Demosthenes.
Concept of love.

III ROMANS 82

Testimony of the poets. Obscene deities. Amatory philtres. Amatory foods.
Bacchic worship. Ovid on erotic practices. Ovid on philtres. Roman generative
deities. Rites of Bona Dea. Generative tutelary deities. Phallic breads. Magic love
spells. Assignations. Fescennini versus. Lamps. Larentalia. Heliogabalus.
Nonaria. Nose and lips. Ovid. Imperial Rome.
IV ORIENT 119

Hindu and Arab treatments and practices. Philtres. Other provocative
preparations. Islam. Sterility. Potions. Perfume. Arab erotologist. Amatory
principles.

V INDIA 135

Erotic manuals. Amatory practices. Philtres. Other means of stimulation. Temple
prostitution. Search for husband.

VI VARIETIES AND OCCASIONS OF POTIONS 155
Examples from Greek and Roman antiquity. Asia. Love cult.

VII POTENCY OF PHILTRES 167

Literary testimony. Woman in the ascendant. Water. Inducements.

VIII INGREDIENTS OF POTIONS. RECIPES. ANECDOTES 174
Preparation of philtres. Illustrative legendary, historical, and literary anecdotes,
allusions, and citations confirming potency of philtres. Divertive philtres.
Medieval philtres. Macrobius. Herbs and plants. The Mill. Amatory procedures.
French stimulant. Papyri. Lucian. River. Black Art potion. Inducements. Oriental.
Flowers, etc. Variety of ingredients.

IX MIDDLE AGES AND LATER 231

Philtres. Dispensers of preparations. Occultists and alchemists associated with
preparations. Literary and historical references. Manuals and other erotic texts.
Priapus as a saint. Phallic Society. Erotic mores in Europe. Clauder on philtres.
Northern deities. Belts of chastity. The Congress: and other medieval practices.
Divertive invocation. Privileges. Orgies. Boccaccio. Turkey. Lo？stes.
Shakespeare. Villon. Sects. Figurines. Demoniac unions. Astrological.

X MODERN TIMES 316
Contemporary eroticism. Amatory customs. Potions. Publications.
Experimentation in erotic stimuli. Literary mention. Popular press. Love spells
and potions. Bayad？re. Advertisements. Restaurants. Erotica. Books.
Hippomanes.

SELECTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY 335

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INTRODUCTION
The amatory motif is pervasive, timeless, and universal. In some of its phases and
manifestations it has presented age-old provocations and, not infrequently, problems that are
still unresolved.
Among such problems are involved the faculty of physiological potency, the urge to
attract amorously, and, conversely, the problem of preventing such attraction in a designated
instance, or of diverting it to another objective.
That, in brief, is the essence of the material means of effecting such a realization. In its
various mutations, its protean diversities, it is the love-potion, the philtre, the mystic concoction
that, once quaffed, will instil love and passion and desire and lust, that will replenish erotic
inadequacies, that will awaken the ancient fons vitae, the symbol of animate being, the source,
as the antique Hellenes sensed and exemplified, of all cosmic creation, of the totality of living
generation.
The potion, then, is at least a hypothetically efficacious instrument for securing and
preserving the amorous interests of the desired object. It also serves as an apotropaic device for
diverting misplaced love, as the agent sees it, and redirecting it to the proper and preferred
channel.
The actual means for the fulfilment of these erotic purposes vary with the ages, with ethnic
groups and demographic alignments, with legendary and folk traditions and mores, with the
disparate levels of culture of a specific region. They present variations and adaptations in
correspondence with climatic and epichorial conditions. But they retain the essentially common
characteristic, the unchanging property, of attempting to shape and mould the amatory
esurgences, in whatever degree, and whether transitory or of more enduring permanence, by
impersonal, palpable, mechanistic and visual means.
It should be observed, as a terminus a quo, that the term philtre itself stems from the Greek
philtron, a love-potion (from philein, to love, and tron, an instrumental suffix). It means, then,
a love-charm.
The term potion is derived immediately from the Latin potio, a draught, whether of
medicine or even of poison. The ultimate source is the Greek potos, a drink. In a general sense,
therefore, a love philtre or potion is a concoction, usually liquid in form, but not necessarily so,
intended to produce or promote amatory sensibilities. In a wide and comprehensive denotation,
the philtre will include any object or charm or periapt that serves the same erotic purpose.
This present survey touches on the use of the potion in the course of the centuries, in
varying circumstances and disparate countries: on the fantastic factors that composed the final
preparations; and on anecdotes, both apocryphal and authenticated, and episodes and
occasional allusions that point up the treatment, its hazards, and even its humors.
With regard to the potions and similar concoctions and preparations of an amatory nature,
a caveat must here be entered. All such philtres are considered in this book from an exclusively
traditional, historical, and academic viewpoint. They are not recommended in any instance for
personal use, as they may involve unpredictable or even catastrophic effects: in no sense,
therefore, should such prescriptions be utilized for empirical experimentation.
H.E.W

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수천년에 걸친 성적인 도구이상의 사랑의 묘약들. Love Potions through the Ages, by Harry E. Wedeck
미국 뉴욕대학교 강사.
LOVE POTIONS
THROUGH THE AGES
A Study of Amatory Devices and Mores

HARRY E. WEDECK

Lecturer in Classics, Brooklyn College of the City University, N. Y.

Fellow, International Institute of Arts and Letters

THE CITADEL PRESS

NEW YORK
FIRST PAPERBOUND EDITION
Published by The Citadel Press
222 Park Avenue South, New York 3, N. Y.
？ Copyright, 1963
by Philosophical Library, Inc.
Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 62？18549
All rights reserved.
Printed in the United States of America