The universal stimulus for magic, there are more love spells, more different types of love spells than any other kind of magic. There are spells to find love, lose love, repair love, and to discourage one love but encourage another. Basic Love Spells are grouped together, followed by more specialized concerns:
Some of these spells are a lot of trouble to cast. Some may be perceived as “disgusting” or demand that the spell-caster do humiliating or unpleasant things. Although theoretically most spells are cast in secret, in many cases, it’s almost impossible for the target of some genres of love spells not to know a spell has been cast or at the very least to think that you’re doing something crazy. (Consider the spell that demands that you bathe the spell target’s private parts with a potion while they sleep: how can the other party not wake up mid-spell?)
There are two things to remember: first, it can be very flattering to have someone go through so much trouble out of love and desire for you. This may even account for a portion of the effectiveness. And second, spells that are a lot of trouble, particularly those that are a lot of trouble over an extended period of time, invite you to examine the crucial question, is he or she worth it? Particularly with binding spells where you are, in effect, binding yourselves together for eternity, if it’s too much trouble, maybe you shouldn’t be performing a binding spell.
These are spells to find new love as well as preserve and protect existing romance.
Adam and Eve is the name given to the roots of the family of orchids that grow from a pair of conjoined roots. The root has two forms, male and female (hence Adam and Eve), believed to resemble the respective genitalia. Once upon a time they were extremely popular, advertised in the backs of comic books and commonly sold as curios in spiritual supply stores. Today, the plants are endangered and the roots are thus very scarce. They are considered very powerful and are featured in many love spells.
Carry the roots in a mojo hand. Take them out periodically, hold them in your hand and charge them with your desire.
Adam and Eve roots like their private time together; they don’t play well with other botanicals. Don’t add other roots or plants to an Adam and Eve conjure bag.
Begin this spell at the New Moon to draw new love into your life.
If you are unable to find Adam and Eve roots, substitute lodestones or figure candles.
This is not a spell for casual relationships; it’s essentially a commitment charm.
Amber is potentially a powerful love charm, although you may have to activate that potential. Romany magical traditions particularly value amber as a love-drawing charm.
The arrows of love go straight to the heart, and arrows are frequent components of love spells.
Diana, the Roman lunar goddess and mistress of magic, to whom this spell is dedicated, has excellent archery skills. Don’t try this spell unless your skills are worthy of the goddess. The spell requires that you shoot a flaming arrow. This is potentially a dangerous spell for more than one reason. Diana will not look favorably upon your petition if you burn down her forest.
One of the traditional meanings of the eight of wands tarot card is love at first sight. The eight wands represent the arrows of love.
Although there are many plants associated with love and romance, the following have all earned a powerful reputation as love-drawing botanicals. In combination they’re even more potent. Incorporate them into your spells as inspired: basil, carrots, catnip, chamomile, cardamom, coriander, cubeb, gardenia, grains of paradise, hibiscus, hyacinth, iris, jasmine, lady’s mantle, lavender, lovage, mint, onion, orchid, poppy, rose, rosemary, Saint John’s Wort, southernwood, strawberries, thyme, tormentil, vervain.
Surround your home with one or more of these living plants as an open invitation to true love.
Presenting someone with a bouquet of flowers was once a method of delivering a spell right into your target’s hands. The “Language of Flowers,” whereby each type of flower represents a specific message, originated in the harems of the Middle East, where secrecy regarding romantic intrigues was crucial. That floral code would ultimately be formalized in Victorian England. Some floral bouquet spells, however, transcend any code.
The simplest, yet extremely effective, love spell is the gift of roses, either one single bloom or a bouquet of a dozen.
Combine roses with myrtle for an especially powerful bouquet. Both plants are sacred to Aphrodite, and together they transmit her power and beseech her blessing. For extra enhancement, combine with conscious petition to Aphrodite.
The addition of vincas, also known as the sorcerer’s violet, transforms any bouquet into an instrument of seduction.
This spell is most effective if using handcrafted candles, because you can actually embed the magical material into the wax. However, a store-bought candle may be doctored as well.
This spell allegedly enables you to win the heart of the one you desire.
The description “doll spell” tends to invoke images of stereotypical “voodoo dolls.” However the use of dolls in magical spells is incredibly ancient and fairly universal. Dolls are used for hexing but they’re also used for healing, protection, fertility, and romantic spells. The piercing of wax figures with pins goes back at least as far as ancient Egypt, however those pins weren’t meant to cause bodily injury. Instead they were intended to stimulate pangs of love and desire from whatever part of the body was pierced. Methods of piercing are frequently more inventive than just sticking needles into the doll.
To turn a sexual relationship into something more:
Turn friendship into something more:
Slip a forget-me-not into someone’s pockets so that you will remain on their mind.
Wear garnets to attract the love of your life.
Juniper is most commonly associated with protection spells. However, juniper berries possess tremendous love drawing and sexuality enhancing powers.
Warning: Juniper spells are not safe for use during pregnancy.
A quicker spell to prepare, ironically it solicits long-term love, romance, and commitment.
Pierce, string, and wear juniper berries to attract lovers.
Lodestone’s magnetic properties inspire their use in love spells. Lodestones are used to draw love toward you and then keep that love close at hand. According to traditional Chinese mysticism, the luckiest wedding bands are crafted from matched lodestones.
Lodestones are believed to have genders, just like other living creatures. Their gender is determined by appearance: the rounder-looking ones are female, while the males bear a phallic resemblance. Choose lodestones to match your desires. Use one to represent yourself and another to represent the person you would like to draw into a romance.
The herb lovage lives up to its name: it allegedly inspires love and amorous attention.
Sprinkle lovage on food—fish or chicken is recommended—ten minutes before serving the meal to your beloved.
This spell requires two candles, one to represent you and one to represent the object of your desire.
Create your own bag using romantic charms, botanicals, and symbols, or follow one of these formulas.
This bag promotes faithfulness as well as romance.
A locket worn around the neck serves as an elegant charm bag. The chain also gives it the air of a binding spell.
Place a photo of your beloved inside a locket together with a strand of hair and a tiny piece of moonwort (Botrychium lunaria).
In Romany, a conjure bag is known as a “putzi,” literally a “pocket.”
Fill a red silk bag with all or some of the following ingredients to draw and maintain love and romance: amber, cinnamon, cloves, acorns, rose buds or petals, orrisroot, a magic ring and an old coin, re-engraved with new sigils.
Burn aloes wood on the Full Moon for a new lover by the New Moon. Repeat as needed.
To find a new love, grind the following ingredients into a fine powder and blend them together. Allow your nose to determine the proportions that are correct for you.
Aloes wood
Camphor
Frankincense
Mastic pearls
Myrrh
Orrisroot
Patchouli
Red sandalwood
Saltpeter
Sandalwood
Vetiver
Magically enhance the power of your love letters. For maximum effectiveness cast these spells in conjunction with each other.
Write an invisible wish on a bay leaf and enclose it in the envelope.
Dab a tiny bit of essential oil of bay laurel onto the corners of the letter’s pages.
Once upon a time most perfumes were dry. They were easier to transport, both in terms of trade and in terms of personal use: a conjure bag could easily be filled with perfumed powder and carried with you to use as needed.
Powders are versatile and can be used in various ways:
Sprinkled on the sheets, any vigorous activity that heats up the bed will simultaneously cause the erotic fragrances to intensify. Sweat encourages the powder to adhere to the skin.
The advantages of edible powder cannot be overemphasized: avoid talc and replace with food quality powder.
Customize your own love powder.
The most celebrated love spirit of all, aphrodisiacs are named in her honor. The finest are believed to share in her essence.
Aphrodite most commonly manifests as either a mermaid or as an impossibly beautiful woman. She shines so brightly that she dazzles the eyes. She is the Queen of Wild Beasts and the Lady of Flowers, and she accepts devotion from both men and women. A friendly, sociable although temperamental spirit, she is usually accompanied by a host of lesser spirits as well as her companion animals. She likes a party. Love is her sacrament. To say that you’re too busy for love or uninterested in romance is to offer her grave insult. To acknowledge the need and desire for sex and romance is to honor her and acknowledge her authority: request her assistance so that you, too, may worship at her altar.
Aphrodite is at the height of her power during the Summer Solstice. Her planets are the sun and Venus. Her day is Friday. Call her with myrtle, myrrh, and roses. Ancient worshippers offered her triangle-shaped honey cakes. Aphrodite is a versatile spirit and her altars take many forms. The bottom line is that they, like the spirit that they honor, must be beautiful. Decorate with seashells and other motifs from the sea.
Aphrodite is a bountiful spirit; she has not one but many sacred creatures and a multitude of sacred botanicals. Apple trees are among her favorites, however, and apples figure prominently in Aphrodite’s magic spells.
This may be considered the most “ethical” love spell of all, as the other person retains the choice to eat the apple or not.
Have Aphrodite empower your love charms so that they will become romantic talismans to draw, maintain, and protect love.
Apollo is a spirit of omnivorous sexuality. His romantic desires for men and women are equally strong; what seems to be the bottom line of attraction for him is beauty, intelligence, and talent, rather than gender. His is a complex myth. Classical Greek mythology paints him as the handsomest, most talented, most clever spirit of all, yet the women he pursues inevitably run from his embrace. Apollo had better luck with male lovers, with whom he had happy, successful relationships. Request his assistance, especially with someone who’s hard to get.
Apollo’s sacred creatures include crows and mice. Significant or surprising appearances may signal your response.
Women seeking other women may request assistance from Artemis and Athena.
Artemis’ happiest times are spent in the company of other women. She has deep-seated doubts about men, although she’s partial to the very few special ones who come along. If you’ve discovered one of those unique men, Artemis may also be petitioned for assistance.
Athena is a complex spirit, torn between her roots in the ancient Libyan religion of the Great Mother and her later fervent embrace of conservative patriarchy. Appeal to her earlier instincts:
In the same manner that certain medicines or hormone treatments affect men and women differently, so some botanicals have different impacts upon the different genders. With the following spell categories (Make Her Love You and Make Him Love You), in general the gender of the target of the spell is what is significant. Thus these are spells to attract a man or a woman. The gender of the spell-caster may or may not be significant so unless told otherwise, assume that these spells are equal opportunity spells.
Fumigate your clothing with the scent of aloes wood, cinnamon, and myrrh to attract women’s romantic attention.
Hand a woman a sprig of basil. Allegedly if she accepts it, she’ll fall in love with you and remain faithful forever.
It’s no accident that High John the Conqueror root is called by a man’s name. It has powerful associations with men’s magic. Many women find success with it as a charm for luck, money, and general good fortune. When it comes to love and sex, however, this charm works best for men.
High John, like lodestones, is divided by gender: there are male and female High John’s. Shape determines gender: the round ones are female; the phallic-looking ones are male. For love, sex, and romantic domination spells, obviously the more phallic the High John the better.
High John has heterosexual proclivities: it draws women to men. Men seeking other men traditionally substitute Sampson snake root.
To attract a specific woman:
Reserve the oil for use as dressing oil.
In addition to stimulating sexual generosity, this spell also allegedly produces a compliant nature.
This spell requests assistance from Isis. It invokes famous lovers in the hope that you too will achieve their ecstasy.
Men are advised to wear sandalwood to elicit a positive sexual response from women.
Follow Me Boy! is the name given to a traditional condition formula. It is considered one of the Commanding formulas but is virtually always used in romantic or erotic situations. Sweet flag creates the commanding effect, which is reinforced further if you add licorice, however damiana is a potent aphrodisiac. He may be forced to follow you but he’ll be happy to do it!
The basic formula consists of:
Dried sweet flag (calamus)
Dried catnip
Dried damiana
Optional: add licorice if you like the fragrance. For a more potent seductive oil, also add essential oils of bergamot, sweet orange, and tuberose, plus essences of any red flowers.
To use, dip a cotton ball in the oil and tuck it into a bra or pocket.
To turn a sexual relationship with a man into something more:
The fragrance of vetiver allegedly attracts men, whether worn by women or other men. Wear it on the body or soak a cotton ball in the essential oil and tuck it into a pocket or bra.
Magically signal your readiness for love to the universe. This spell allegedly beckons true love near.
Add cubebs and hibiscus blossoms to your bath. Reserve some of the used bathwater and sprinkle it around your home to signal your magical invitation to a new lover.
Old Love Spell
A proverb suggests that love is wasted on the young. Orrisroot preserves the pleasures and passions of romance throughout one’s life. Create this powder by grinding orrisroot and blending with rice powder. Dust on your body and the bed sheets as desired.
Other oils will be found in the Formulary, including Black Cat, Cleopatra, Come to Me Lover!, and Queen of Sheba.
As far as love goes, Fast Luck Oil is a pick-up oil. Expect to draw a surprise one-night stand or even a great weekend, but not true long-lasting lingering love. The ingredients are cinnamon, vanilla, and Wintergreen, with a jojoba oil base.
Look for pansies with little faces that please you. Weave them into chains and hang them in the bedroom to capture the love you desire.
Candles in the shape of red witches are particularly beneficial for love magic.
The imagery is always positive: the red witch may represent the power of the witch as an ally or she can transcend the entire concept of human witches, to represent primordial female power. The red witch is symbolic for the menstrual blood that figures in so many love spells.
Red Witch candles are used to draw love:
This spell may be used for an unknown lover or for someone whom you already desire. If you know the person’s identity, insert their name into the chant.
“Nothing’s cold as ashes after the fire is gone…”
Allegedly vervain can re-ignite spent passions and past love. Create an infusion by pouring boiling water over vervain leaves. Add the infusion to your bath and allow yourself to air-dry when meeting your old love—although presumably for maximum effectiveness one bathes together.
You don’t want just any love; you need the right one. This spell is beneficial for a long-term love search. Add Attraction Oil to your bath every Friday until you’ve found the love you want.
Roses are a metaphor for the human heart. No flower represents love more vividly. Perhaps nothing does. Roses are sacred to the most powerful spirits of love: Aphrodite, Juno, Isis, Kybele, Maitresse Ezili, and Maria Padilha. Oshun loves yellow roses.
Cleopatra, the living embodiment of Aphrodite and Isis, seduced Mark Antony in a scented bedroom, packed kneedeep with rose petals.
Red Rose Powder is used to heal lover’s quarrels.
Better yet, add Red Rose Powder to rice powder to create a body dusting powder. Apply it to your own body with a powder puff so that no one can stay mad at you.
The original love beads are crafted from rose petals.
Spells to initiate love emerge from different needs. Perhaps you await your soul mate, whose identity remains unknown, or perhaps soul mates and true love aren’t an issue: you’d just like a companion, a new lover or relationship. Or maybe you have your heart set on someone special, whose identity is known to you. Now if only this person shared your desires…
A spell to find new love, particularly following a long period of solitude, loneliness, and bad luck:
Grains of Paradise allegedly incite passion, erotic thoughts, and actions. They also possess a commanding element. Originally a popular East African magical ingredient, they are now renowned worldwide.
Use them to draw new love into your life: add an infusion of Grains of Paradise to your bath water; sprinkle the used bath water together with some extra powder around your home to signal your availability.
Violet leaves resemble hearts. Place some in your shoe to attract new love and to guide you towards the right lover.
Spells for when you know who you want.
This is a spell to persuade someone to return your affections. Three candles are required: one to represent you, the second, the object of your affections, and the last candle, the potential state of romance. Use figure candles to represent the people plus a large pillar or heart-shaped candle.
Cover a small photo of the one you love by wrapping it in strands of your hair. Wrap this up in red thread. Wrap this up in red velvet and bury the whole packet in Earth.
Fairy tales are full of magic power objects that draw love and good fortune toward their bearers. What the stories sometimes neglect to mention is that you can craft your own.
In ancient Rome, coral earrings were believed to beckon men and draw love. Wear a pair at strategic opportunities.
To discover a bit of red ribbon, string, wool, or piece of fabric indicates luck in love and a change in romantic fortunes. Pick it up and make a wish. (If you can’t think of one, requesting luck and happiness in love is more than appropriate.) Carry the ribbon as an amulet.
Rose quartz allegedly draws lovers toward you. Wear it as jewelry or carry it with you.
Should it draw too many, too fast in an overwhelming manner, add an amethyst for a stabilizing effect.
It’s crucial to distinguish between banishing and binding spells, a not uncommon source of confusion.
Occasionally the term “binding” is meant to indicate that someone has been incapacitated (“bound”) and is no longer able to harm you. However it is not used in that context in this book. Think “ties that bind” rather than “bound and gagged.”
There are two types of love binding spells:
How do you know if a binding spell has been cast over you? If every effort to leave a relationship fails, there’s reason at least for suspicion. Never fear; as with hexes, antidotes exist.
There is a key difference between menstrual blood potions and classical binding spells: a successful menstrual potion causes the other person to love you forever. You, however, remain a free agent. Binding spells bind you as surely as they bind the other party. Use them judiciously.
Wait! Before the binding spells begin below, how do you know you have the right person? Are you binding yourself to true love or to living disaster? These two spells will help you determine the answer.
Rue attracts love but also eliminates women’s romantic illusions. It is not safe for use by pregnant women or those actively attempting to become pregnant. (In which case, other issues and factors may be at hand.)
Simultaneously burn rue, inhaling the fragrance, while drinking rue tea. Bathing in an infusion of rue, at the same time, will maximize the potential of this spell.
An amethyst carried as a talisman attracts women. It specifically draws honorable women.
These binding spells are entered into freely and with mutual intent. They produce a magical wedding of souls and affirm commitment to one another. At their best, these are the most romantic spells of all.
This binding spell ensures that a couple remains together. It will also counter efforts to sunder your love, thus serving as a simultaneous protection spell.
The most successful binding spells stem from mutual desire and intent.
“How do I love thee?” Let me count the seeds…
To effect a binding:
You’ve discovered that someone has bound you without your knowledge or permission and against your desires. All is not lost. Binding chains can be broken.
Sometimes the romantic issue at hand isn’t attracting or maintaining love, rather it’s terminating a relationship. Break-Up Spells include:
Turnips are allegedly the anti-love food. Set a dish of turnips before an unwanted suitor to send them on their way.
Sometimes a significant relationship may have ended for you. Now you’re waiting for the other person to come to the same understanding.
Warning: this is not a secret spell. The ingredients are derived from Van Van and (botanical) Graveyard Dust. The powder will have a strong aroma. Questions will be asked.
According to general metaphysical wisdom, any sexual relationship creates vestigial ties that bind, the more intense, passionate, and lengthy the relationship, the more intense, passionate, and lingering the bonds. This cleansing spell is beneficial whenever you wish to sever and erase those bonds, whether from a long-term relationship or a one-night stand.
Gently rub a whole raw egg against your naked body, from head to toe and outwards from shoulders to fingers, with extra emphasis placed on the genitals. When complete, break the raw egg into the toilet and flush it away.
This powder is more subtle than Break-Up Powder.
Grind the following botanicals into fine powder: camphor, pennyroyal, and slippery elm. Sprinkle into the shoes and pockets of the one who should depart.
Warning: Pregnant women or those actively attempting to become pregnant should not handle pennyroyal.
Do you sense love slipping away? These spells attempt to restore and revive lost or fading love. The relationship isn’t completely over; your partner hasn’t left…yet. (Under these circumstances, consider Summoning Spells to help bring the other party back.)
There’s no need for a Summoning Spell. He or she hasn’t left yet. You, however, foresee with fear and dismay that the date of departure seems imminent. This variation of a floorwash attempts to forestall that departure, revive love and happiness, and make that Summoning Spell you’ve already picked out completely unnecessary. This is a version of a classic condition formula known as Stay With Me.
It matters little that your partner hasn’t left; love seems to be gone.
Burn dragon’s blood while chanting petitions for love to be restored and resurrected. Keep chanting continuously for as long as the dragon’s blood burns.
“Pega-pega” is the Spanish name for the botanical Desmodium obtusum. Pega-pega literally means “stick-stick” or “attach-attach.”
Sometimes it’s not about the other person; it’s about repairing and soothing your own broken heart.
A cleansing spell for when a bad love affair has left you feeling tainted, humiliated, or defiled.
Heartsease are wild pansies. Their name reveals their secret power to soothe heartache. Float fresh blossoms in your bath or add the flower essence remedy.
Honeysuckle discourages unhealthy nostalgia and attachment to the past, enabling you to move forward in a whole, healthy manner. These spells require traditional fragrant honeysuckle rather than Cape honeysuckle, which is beautiful but lacks scent.
The scent of oregano allegedly helps you forget old lovers. Ordering a pizza may be of some use once in a while, however burning the dried herb as incense or heating a few drops of the essential oil in an aroma burner are much more effective.
Among yarrow’s meanings in the Language of Flowers is “cure for heartache.” Add yarrow hydrosol to your bath water.
At its most basic, the exact nature of the simple love potion beverage is less crucial than your magic power with which you’ve charged it.
Not the alcoholic beverage or herbal tea type? Not to worry. Bake caraway seeds into cakes, breads, and cookies and serve to the one you desire to stimulate mutual emotions.
Allegedly hand-feeding someone chestnuts stimulates them to love you.
Following the conquest of Mexico, chocolate was exported to Europe. In Aztec Mexico, chocolate was served as a ritual drink, with chili peppers rather than sugar. In Europe, chocolate’s aphrodisiac properties were exploited instead. The Inquisition was not pleased: some Spanish women got into trouble for allegedly using hot chocolate to cast love spells. Interestingly, chocolate is now known to contain phenylethylamine, a stimulant similar to those released during sex. For what it’s worth, Casanova’s recommended pre-sex menu was a cup of chocolate and a plate of oysters.
Serve hot chocolate to the one you love and see if it works. For extra enhancement, top with powdered aphrodisiac spices, like powdered cinnamon or cardamom.
The basic formula includes cardamom, cinnamon, coriander seeds, and licorice root. Two different techniques provide different effects.
The aroma of simmering Dreams of Delight may be so inviting that drinking may not be necessary. Merely inhaling the fragrance with its subliminal message of love and seduction may be sufficient for the purpose.
Fairy tales tell of fairies so infatuated with mortal lovers that they seduce them and carry them away to Fairyland, where no doubt this potion is served. Gather elderberries on Midsummer’s Eve, whispering your desires over them. Make them into elderberry wine, or just steep the berries in wine and serve.
Add a few drops of hibiscus flower essence remedy to jasmine tea and serve to the one you love.
Lavender is one of those interesting substances that may serve as an aphrodisiac—or create the opposite effect. The only way to find out how someone will react is to serve it.
Add fresh lavender to a bottle of white wine. Allow it to steep several hours or overnight, then strain and serve.
A potion for two intended to enhance, stimulate, and preserve true love.
Today any spiritual supplier worth its salt sells some sort of love-drawing oil called Love Potion #9 but, as anyone who’s ever actually listened to the song knows, the original was a drink. The earliest Love Potions # 9 seem to have been infusions of herbs, i.e., herbal teas or tisanes, relying on aphrodisiacs rather than alcohol to deliver the passion.
Lovage, a plant whose associations with romance are indicated by its name, is also known as “nine-stem.” Some consider that lovage tea is the true Love Potion #9. Experiment and see which is most effective.
Share a papaya. This not only induces erotic feelings but allegedly stimulates true love.
Simple ordinary black tea allegedly induces lust and erotic inclinations. After all, tea does derive from the beautiful camellia family. Drink it by itself or use it as a base for more complex potions.
Brew black tea from leaves, incorporating fresh mint, rose petals, and/or jasmine blossoms for added enhancement. Add one drop of essential oil of bergamot before serving and murmur your desires into the steaming liquid.
The simplest potion of all is wine. It invokes the blessing of Dionysus, Patron of Intoxication and the only Olympian spirit happily wed to his soul mate. Wine also invokes the precision required by magic: just the right quantity kindles passion and ability. Too much and erotic power is removed, replaced by sleep, obnoxiousness, erectile dysfunction, and general unpleasantness.
These are very specific spells: a romantic or true love component may also exist but that’s not the main focus of the spell. Just like regular love spells, this category is vast, with spells to suit every taste and desire. A high percentage of Sex and Seduction Spells, especially the more ancient ones, are designed to enable men to magically seduce women. This may be because for millennia women’s spells went unrecorded or it may reflect historical social sexual dynamics.
During the European witch-craze, the fear of witch-caused impotence reached states of hysteria. In other cultures, other concerns were more prominent. The fear-inducing magical figure of The Arabian Nights or Jewish fairytales isn’t that notorious female witch, it’s the evil male sorcerer intent on seducing young virgins and devout, faithful wives alike with irresistible mystical charms, amulets, and spells.
For happiest results, cast these spells cooperatively.
Aphrodisiacs tend to be foods or fragrances. Because they evoke very personal, unique responses, experimentation is required to discover which aphrodisiacs work for you or your lover. Incorporate any one or combination of the following into your very personal spells:
Caviar
Champagne
Chocolate
Coriander
Fruits: apricots, peaches, cherries, grapes, figs, pomegranates
Garlic
Hibiscus tea
Honey
Hot peppers
Mint
Onions
Radishes
Saffron
Shellfish especially, but all fish in general
Spices: cardamom, cinnamon, cloves
Sushi
Vanilla
In the Language of Flowers, cyclamen represents voluptuousness.
Soak the root in sweet almond oil for three days. Strain and reserve the oil to serve as a dressing oil for charms and candles. Cyclamen flower remedy (Pegasus) may have aphrodisiac properties too. Experiment.
Diamond refers to both a gemstone and a shape. In the metaphysical language of geometry, the diamond shape may stand in for the human eye or for the vagina. Is this why Western marriages are typically initiated with diamond rings? Emeralds are the gemstones that attract and stabilize love and fidelity. So why are diamonds such popular engagement rings?
Diamonds, whether carried or worn, promote self-confidence in sexual matters. They relieve root causes of sexual dysfunction. They are a cleansing, releasing, purifying stone in matters of sexuality. These are spells that will, no doubt, please the target:
What does the goddess of love wear to cast a seduction spell? A magic cloak with nothing underneath? Once upon a time, like Aphrodite or Ishtar, she wore a magic girdle but that magical garment seems to have lost some power over the ages. Another item of clothing however, once associated with witchcraft, retains its magic powers of seduction.
Wear a crimson garter belt to enhance your powers of seduction, create an aura of irresistibility (it works without anyone seeing it, unless you want them to), and to discover wells of primal female power.
Grind and powder ginger lilies, jasmine, myrrh, and tuberose. (Essential oils may also be warmed in an aroma burner.) Waft the fragrance where desired.
Blend essential oils of jasmine, tuberose, lavender, and ylang ylang to render yourself irresistible and to inspire passionate feelings.
Eve seduced Adam with an apple. Or did she? As apples aren’t native to that part of Earth, there’s been much debate as to the actual identity of the forbidden fruit. Other possibilities include apricots, pomegranates, quince, and figs (hence the fig leaf). A simple display of fruits allegedly magically tempts even someone determined not to be seduced.
Lavender is an unusual plant; some find it to have aphrodisiac properties while others find it to be the opposite. Test its effects on lovers.
Pin fresh lavender to your underwear; allegedly this renders you sexually irresistible. Alternatively, add essential oil of lavender to final rinse water when washing your underwear; this may be as effective and will certainly be more comfortable.
Persephone wasn’t Hades’ only love. His true love apparently was the nymph Mentha. This relationship pre-dated his abduction of Persephone and continued after their marriage. When Demeter discovered that not only had Hades kidnapped and raped her daughter, he was also cheating on her, she was outraged and in a classic example of blaming it on the woman, transformed Mentha into the lowly peppermint plant. Mentha had the last laugh: Hades was rendered unable to perform sexually without mint. (Of course, the fact that peppermint was once used as a contraceptive might also have influenced the Lord of the Dead.) To this day mint is considered among the most potent aphrodisiacs.
Night-blooming jasmine’s nicknames “Queen of the Night” and “Moonlight of the Grove” indicate its power. Wear fresh blossoms after dark to attract a new lover, romantically hypnotize one you already have, and to transform yourself into a nocturnal queen.
Blend hibiscus and rose petals. (Grind, powder, or leave whole as you choose.) Use these flowers to sprinkle a path to the bedroom or wherever you choose. You may create a lavish carpet or be extremely discreet, as long as the path is unbroken.
The compilation of stories known as The Thousand and One Nights or The Arabian Nights is filled with details of magic spells and formulas for seduction. Because stories that fall under the broad category of fairy tales are now relegated to children, the erotic material contained in The Arabian Nights is typically excised. Add essential oils of aloes, ambrette, jasmine, liquidambar, myrrh, and rose to your bath in preparation for nights of love.
Place five drops of Cleopatra Oil in each corner of the bed and another five in the very center for enhanced erotic enjoyment and powers of seduction.
Jezebel Oil, like the queen in whose honor it’s named, is a complex, multifaceted oil. Mainly used in money, love, and seduction spells (and especially those spells that bridge all three concerns), the key to Jezebel Oil is that it is used for getting what you want, in the face of all odds. Jezebel root, a cousin of orrisroot, possesses both seductive and commanding properties.
The spell may be used to initiate a relationship or to hold an already existing lover spellbound. Intensify standard Jezebel Oil by adding cinnamon, damiana, jasmine, and/or rose petals. Dress purple taper candles with this oil and burn it in your intended’s presence.
Allegedly this oil arouses desire and ability and reduces resistance.
Grind cubeb peppers into powder and sprinkle it around the bed to magically inspire better sex.
Powder orrisroot and mix with cinnamon powder. Rub just a little bit between your hands and touch the person you desire.
Grind Grains of Paradise, damiana, and cubeb peppers together. Sprinkle this powder around your bed to enhance all activities within it.
For sweet, persuasive speech, chew a bit of cinnamon just before speaking.
Peppermint (real peppermint leaves, not breath mints) may work, too.
According to legend, thyme derives from Helen of Troy’s tears, and thus shares her essence. Bathe in an infusion of fresh herbs to radiate the power of a love magnet. Use carefully: remember Helen was kidnapped twice!
Cast this spell to attract or seduce a lover. Add genuine vanilla extract to your bath. Allow yourself to air-dry, then dust with rice powder blended with a little ground cinnamon.
In addition to general aphrodisiacs, there is a special category of spells designed to enhance, strengthen, and remedy male sexual performance. Male sexual performance spells fall into two categories:
According to ancient Mesopotamian belief, all-seeing, all-knowing spirits punish a host of infractions, some of which you may not even have realized you had committed until you received the punishment. Mesopotamian deities typically communicate their displeasure by inflicting disease. Each possesses its own specific illness. Thus you will know by the disease, whose displeasure you have evoked. Ishtar, Divine Spirit of Love, Life, and Sexual Delights, punishes via sexual dysfunction. If impotence is a result of her anger, then the only way it can be resolved is through rituals to evoke her forgiveness.
However, a problem of ambiguity exists: impotence may also be the result of malevolent bewitchment cast by another person, or of a mangled Fidelity Spell cast by your wife to stop you playing around on the side. (The notion of a purely physical cause may or may not have existed.)
The root cause of impotence affects the nature of its cure. This diagnostic spell seeks to determine whether lack of sexual ability stems from human hands or from the Hand of Ishtar. As with many healing rituals, someone else performs the spell for the patient.
I’ve left the ancient spell’s original instructions as per materials, on the off chance that emmer has some magical qualities distinct from other wheat and that this ingredient may be possible for some to find. However, feel free to substitute a more convenient wheat if needs be.
Early American colonists recommend dandelions to counteract impotence based on magical and folk-healing traditions. Interestingly dandelion leaves have since been discovered to contain extremely high quantities of Vitamin A, essential for production of male and female sex hormones.
A glass of dandelion wine serves as a restorative potion. Alternatively add dandelion leaves to salad. Before consuming, murmur your desires over the food and visualize successful accomplishment of the spell.
Place a chunk of dragon’s blood in a red bag and keep it under the mattress, to reinvigorate male sexual prowess.
Oaks are traditionally associated with primal male power. This spell may be used to remedy impotence or just enhance sexual capacity.
As the Marvellettes sang, “My baby must be a magician because he’s sure got the magic touch!” These spells may benefit someone suffering from erectile dysfunction, it doesn’t hurt to try; however their real goal is to transform regular sex into nights (and days!) of unflagging ecstasy.
Male Super Sexual Ability Spells tend to take the form of potions or virility charms. In many cases the magic symbolism inherent in these spells evokes female sexual symbolism in order to enhance male sexual ability (almonds, honey, clams, and more).
Add essential oil of jasmine, ideally jasmine sambac, to sweet almond oil. Use this oil to dress candles or the body, to magically fulfill the promise inherent in its name.
Make a date with some dates: carry cleansed, dried date pits in a conjure bag, for enhanced sexual ability.
Carry dried Johnny-Jump-Up blossoms in a conjure bag to enhance male sexual potency.
To enhance male sexual prowess:
Before breakfast on three consecutive mornings, eat shelled almonds pounded with cinnamon and then mixed into honey. Three mornings is allegedly enough to provide a long-lasting effect.
Keep male fern and High John the Conqueror roots stored among your clothing. When you wear the clothing, you will allegedly radiate sexual magnetism.
Double horns evoke primal female power, reflecting the appearance of women’s internal sexual organs; a single horn manifests male primal power and sexual vigor for obvious reasons. Although men aren’t inherently vulnerable to the Evil Eye, their sexual power and reproductive capacity are among the Evil Eye’s primary targets. Charms representing horns, traditionally worn around the neck, potently protect male genitalia and virility.
Grind, powder, and blend the following: cinnamon, peppermint, red sandalwood, and vetiver. Dust the sheets or dust yourself to inspire your partner.
Summoning spells are exactly what they promise: magic spells to bring someone to you. Most often used for lovers, a summoning charm may be effective for anyone with whom there is a strong soul connection or emotional bond.
In some cases summoning spells beckon a new lover or someone who is a friend, acquaintance, or who has perhaps expressed casual romantic interest but the spell-caster wants more. Usually these spells target someone whose identity is known as opposed to the abstract new-love drawing spells found among Basic Love Spells.
Many of these spells, however, are specifically cast to summon a spouse, partner, or ex-partner who has abandoned the spell-caster or with whom there has been a substantial disagreement. Their whereabouts may or may not be known. Many older spells specifically target a husband; women may have been less likely or able to leave or perhaps there were more direct means of bringing them back.
Encourage a spouse or lover who has abandoned a relationship to return.
For the return of an absent lover:
This spell was inspired by men who took younger second wives. This is the old wives’ retaliation. It may also be used to lure a man back from another lover.
The spell has two effects: first, to induce him to return to you, and second, to make sex unsatisfactory with anyone but you in the meantime. The second aspect allegedly kicks into action as soon as the date is inserted.
Bring an errant lover back with Cleopatra Oil. The oil may be worn as perfume; otherwise saturate a cotton ball with it to wear or carry when you anticipate running into your ex.
This summoning spell demands personal contact with the target.
Create Do As I Say Powder by grinding and powdering cedar chips, myrrh, sweet flag/calamus, and peppermint leaves. Sprinkle the powder on the ground in your target’s path; allegedly this will magically induce your ex to return to you.
This spell allegedly returns a departed lover within twenty-one days. It possesses a protective aspect as well as a summoning one. If the spell doesn’t work and he’s not back in the prescribed time, this may mean you’re better off without him. Start making new plans.
Sprinkle magnetic sand onto a magnetic horseshoe to encourage the return of a lost love.
This spell comes with a time limit; if success isn’t shown by the end of 27 days, it’s time to consider a new romantic start.
Three times is the charm: if he’s not back after this, he won’t be.
This elaborate ritual, intended to force an errant husband’s return, pretty much tells the universe that you’re as good as dead if he doesn’t come home.
Immediately call the spouse’s name and demand that spiritual authorities force his return:
Soul of Tulimeca, you who are in Rome.
I need you to send me [Name], child of [Name], repentant of all the grief he has caused me
Humbled and full of love for me
This ordeal must be repeated for three successive nights.