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<p> The name given to certain concoctions of herbs, often deleterious and poisonous, supposed to secure for the person administering it the love of the person to whom it was administered; these love potions were popular in the declining days of [[Greece]] and Rome, throughout mediæval Europe, and continue to be compounded to this day in the superstitious East. </p> | <p> The name given to certain concoctions of herbs, often deleterious and poisonous, supposed to secure for the person administering it the love of the person to whom it was administered; these love potions were popular in the declining days of [[Greece]] and Rome, throughout mediæval Europe, and continue to be compounded to this day in the superstitious East. </p> | ||
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<ref name="term_78037"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/the-nuttall-encyclopedia/philtre Philtre from The Nuttall Encyclopedia]</ref> | <ref name="term_78037"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/the-nuttall-encyclopedia/philtre Philtre from The Nuttall Encyclopedia]</ref> | ||
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Latest revision as of 18:51, 15 October 2021
Philtre [1]
The name given to certain concoctions of herbs, often deleterious and poisonous, supposed to secure for the person administering it the love of the person to whom it was administered; these love potions were popular in the declining days of Greece and Rome, throughout mediæval Europe, and continue to be compounded to this day in the superstitious East.