But among the many strange and unpleasant things which have been used in the flavouring of love philtres saffron does not appear to have had a place.
In spite of this tale of impatient love there does not seem to be any record, as one might have expected, of the use of crocus in the flavouring of love philtres or charms.
About the sixteenth century philtres came to be compounded and sold by the apothecaries, who doubtless derived from them a lucrative profit.
Pliny states, that there were also philtres for quenching love.
Before they departed the devil was said to give them philtres and amulets.
Love Philtreswere administered for the purpose of inspiring affection or hatred.
Chilperic then caused Mummolus to be tortured by suspension with his arms tied behind his back, but he only confessed to having obtained from the womenphiltres and ointments to secure the favor of the king and queen.
Philtres and love-potions, causing irresistible desire or indifference or hatred, were among the ordinary resources of Norse magic.
I might find it difficult to protect you if he knew where to find you, for charms and philtres are deadlier weapons in such hands as his, than sword and spear in yours and mine.
He is drawn towards him, not by the art of magic, but by the seduction exerted by nature, which harmonizes and unites two beings joining them one to the other, not by locality, but by the power of the philtres employed.
How will the worthy man be able to escape the action of the enchantments and the philtres employed by magic?
Now, Master Valerius, when I heard him speak of philtres and charms, you may be sure I began to quicken up my ears more keenly than ever.
Magic philtres deprived me of my reason’ (Tristan, Siegfried in his relations with Gutrune).
Were not the elixirs of life and the love philtres which the witches sold to the senile and impotent composed of similar or analogous substances?
This is happening at the present day, and it is the priests who have invented philtres unknown to the sorcerers of the Middle Ages.
Like the Grecian sorceresses, Medea and Circe, the Vedic magicians were acquainted with numerous plants which would produce love-philtres of the most powerful character, if not altogether irresistible.
One of the Witches' most reliable sources of obtaining money from their dupes was the concoction of love-philtres for despondent swains and love-sick maidens.
The root of the common Male Fern (Filix mas), was an important ingredient in the love-philtres of former days.
It was of a piece with that magic by which Cleopatra defied time, and changed the ravages of habit into philtres of fresh charm.
Other cases are mentioned in which the philtres produced madness instead of love.
The enchanters (sagae) made philtres to produce or impede the sensual appetite.
Fresh philtres were often needed; and the blame of this must lie with the lady, from whom the Witch in her mocking, malignant rage exacted the most humiliating observances.
All we know of the charms and philtres used by the witches is very fantastic, not seldom marked by malice, and recklessly mixed up with things that seem to us the least likely to have awakened love.
We forget the Borgia, with her laboratory of philtres and poisons--we only think that never a duke of all his royal race brought home a lovelier bride than Alfonso of Ferrara.
Philtres injure the intellect, and have a maddening effect.
Philtres were noxious potions, made of venomous or stimulating ingredients, prescribed as a means of gaining the affections of the person to whom they were administered.
That this discretion was used is seen in the Mexican case of Isabel de Montoya, a wretched old woman, in 1652, who freely confessed to numerous devices for procuring money--charms and philtres and conjurations.
He had thrived by selling philtres to provoke love, formed indecently of the bones and skin of a man and a woman, for which he had numerous customers, including ladies of quality.
The philtres in the Western countries consist mostly of poisonous ingredients taken from toads, snakes, etc.
This water becomes poisonous, and is used by witches for philtres and spells.
In the bottom of their sacks are hidden love philtres and strange electuaries.
I suppose," he continued, "one of those love philtres was used with which superfluous people are put under ground there.
Very probably, but as a rule, the love philtres worked.
Then there is some truth in the old woman's philtres after all?
Such a term applied to her philtres in the presence of one whom she wished for her own reasons to impress fully with her potency!
SELIM There can be no doubt that there are philtres which drive women to love, though their hearts be as strong and their heads as cold as the mountains of Qaf.
But as for this Zachariah, I know he sells philtres at ten dinars the bottle: his shop is crowded with rich old women.
Diabolical philtres were poured into her cup; that is another tradition in your family.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "philtres" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
