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

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