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Feature Image:<\/strong> The Three Witches from Shakespeare\u2019s Macbeth by Daniel Gardner, 1775. Wikimedia Commons.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201c\u2026aperitive, abstersive, carminative, digestive, discussive, diuretic, incisive, vulnerary, cephalick, neurotick, stomachick, splenetick, nephritick, hysterick, sudorifick, analeptick, and alexipharmick.<\/em>\u201d \u2014The powers of pennyroyal, per William Salmon, M.D. (1644\u20131713)<\/p>\n

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W<\/span>atch the moon phases, pluck leaves from graves, collect herbs from unsunned spots, favoring your left hand over your right. Wear a lock of your lover\u2019s hair tucked between your third and fourth rib. Sometimes a stolen potato in your pocket will cure rheumatism while green wormwood in your shoe is good for stomach pain. Henbane in the sheets won\u2019t just preserve chastity but will also kill fleas. And, of course, actually consuming<\/em> an herb can cure what ails you too.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe leaves of the lesser periwinkle, if eaten by man and wife together, will cause love between them,\u201d according to Nicholas Culpeper, \u201ca student in physick\u201d who wrote of herbal remedies in the 17th century.<\/p>\n

By the 19th century, we\u2019d become ever more practical. An 1874 edition of an Ohio newspaper outlined love-potion ingredients that included \u201cbones of toads and snakes, a portion of the head of a newborn foal, called \u2018hippomanes,\u2019 the feathers of a night-hawk, the blood of doves, bones torn from the mouths of famishing dogs, and the strands of a rope with which a man had hanged himself.\u201d<\/p>\n

We had something deep to fear from the \u201caged crones\u201d who, along with \u201cso-called herbalists, quack doctors, and charlatans\u201d practiced a medicine that was equal parts poison, hallucination, blind-trust, and gardening. This was according to author Richard Folkard, who, with his book Plant Lore, Legends and Lyrics<\/em> (1884), sought to chronicle as many sick-inducing curatives as he could list, all the potions \u201ccunningly prepared by the Witch and her confederates.\u201d<\/p>\n

In matters of love, and even anti-love, women and men were especially vulnerable to the most provocative fixes; the more a cure hinted at danger and perversity, the more authentic it seemed. Love is mercurial enough to be best situated in the witch\u2019s dominion.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe war with Spain was a blessing to me and others of my profession,\u201d pronounced \u201can up-to-date seeress\u201d in an 1898 article in the San Francisco Call addressing an uptick in sales of love amulets and potions, as women sent their sweethearts off to battle in the Spanish-American War. The reporter described one seeress as \u201crustled in a silk gown. Her nails were badly kept, but her begrimed fingers were covered with rings.\u201d
\nThese \u201ccrones\u201d and \u201cquacks\u201d could prove so influential in a community, many towns had laws against clairvoyants, even New York City: a bust reported in the Times in 1934 details three midtown \u201cgypsy tea rooms\u201d and a roundup, by the Bureau of Policewomen, of twelve people who plead guilty to fortune-telling. An owner of one of the buildings was charged with \u201cmaintaining a nuisance.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe business of a clairvoyant nowadays is more like that of a physician than any other profession,\u201d reported The Sun, the New York City newspaper, many years previous, following a series of raids in 1894. The modern clairvoyant was doctor-like in her cures and regular clientele, who relied on her advice in matters of physical and emotional health. The article outlined the particulars of many of those arrested, including Emma L. King, of 142 E. 53rd St. Visited by an undercover detective who claimed to be in love but didn\u2019t know with whom, Miss King \u201csqueezed his hand gently while she told him of a shy maiden of 26 summers who was simply withering for him.\u201d She sold him a potion, after which he took her into custody. Eva Jackson, of 149 W. 26th St, offered to fall into a trance for an undercover cop for $2. \u201cThe detective tried to buy a little trance for $1, but it was a no go.\u201d Nonetheless, she was arrested too.<\/p>\n

An 1897 article about the shops of New York\u2019s east side noted that love potions were to be found \u201cin the dirty-looking groceries and the overcrowded dry goods shops.\u201d Among the potions and ingredients for sale: salt of gold, stick of lovage root to be \u201cmade into powder and baked in cakes,\u201d bat\u2019s blood, nutmeg, and \u201ca diet of mushrooms and truffles.\u201d
\nWhile fortune-telling laws seem likely to reflect a fear of \u201cforeign\u201d neighbors and working women, a town\u2019s witches might have hailed from any walk of life, or might have simply been hobbyists. A New York Herald<\/em> article in 1893 began: \u201cSamuel Friedman, who keeps a small shoe store in Williamsburg, N.Y., has been married several years, and is not as attentive to his wife, Fannie, as he used to be.\u201d The love-starved Fannie consulted with a woman in town who claimed to have the power \u201cto make the coldest heart glow with love.\u201d The witch charged $4 for an elixir to pour into Sam\u2019s beer. The mister noticed his missus tampering with his suds, feared poison, and confronted his wife, who confessed of her love plot. He took the concoction to the druggist, who told him it was a cheap mix of peppermint and sugar. According to the druggist: \u201cThere are many women
\nin this neighborhood in the same business, and most of them give lovesick women about one cents worth of Epsom salts and charge $1 to $5.\u201d<\/p>\n

A successful love potion in Reading, Pa., in 1899, led to charges against Mrs. Bertha Whiskeyman who had managed to lure a young man away from his family. Robert Richards was a hopelessly innocent lad of twenty-one, and his mother appealed to the law to intervene in the schemes of Mrs. Whiskeyman, \u201ca woman much older in years.\u201d Mrs. Whiskeyman claimed that she had \u201conly a sisterly interest\u201d in Robert, despite the fact the boy had moved in with her, and Mr. Whiskeyman had initiated divorce proceedings.<\/p>\n

We advise heeding the warnings of Lady Wilde, in her 1888 volume Ancient Legends, Mystic Charms, and Superstitions of Ireland<\/em>. \u201cThe result may be fatal,\u201d she says of love potions, and cites the case of an unnamed young man who \u201csuddenly became wild and reckless,\u201d likely due to a love potion administered upon him. When the girl who slipped him the potion saw this affect, she fell despondent and, after many years of half-derangement, \u201cdied of melancholy and despair.\u201d Lady Wilde offers a charming alternative: \u201ca sprig of mint in your hand until the herb grows moist and warm, then take hold of the hand of the woman you love, and she will follow you as long as the two hands close over the herb.\u201d<\/p>\n

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