LOVE CHARMS

Place a small copper plate upon which a spell has been incised in a new glass goblet filled with your sweat, and hide it in a place which the woman must pass.

Take a hot bath, cover the entire body with flour, and perspire profusely; wipe the sweat off with a clean white linen cloth, and wring it into a dish; mix in an egg; cut the nails from hands and feet and the hair from the entire body and burn these to a powder: bake them all together and serve.

Blow out the contents of an egg that was laid on a Thursday, and fill the shell with blood drawn from the left arm; place it under a setting hen, and as soon as its chicks are hatched, burn the contents of the egg-shell, together with some human excrement, to a powder; then buy the hen at the first price asked, tear it open and place its hearts under your tongue „until it dies“; then burn the heart, too, to ash and mix the various powders together and serve. Or, more simply, buy a hen, tear its heart open, and place its tongue under your tongue.

Take a live mole, a male for a man, a female for a woman, and strike it on its right foot, „and it will bring you true love“ This lasti s touted as „unequalled“!