Love Potion No. 9

Items Needed:

• 9 ounces Sweet Red Wine
• 9 Basil leaves
• 9 Red Rose Petals
• 9 Anise Stars
• 9 Cloves
• 9 Apple Seeds
• 9 drops Vanilla extract
• 9 drops Strawberry juice
• 1 Ginseng root cut into 9 equal pieces

By the light of nine red votive candles, put the nine ingredients into a cauldron on the ninth hour of the ninth day of the ninth month of the year.(September 9th @ 9 AM) Stir the potion nine times with a wooden spoon, each time reciting the following incantation:

"Let the one who drinks this wine
shower me with love divine
Sweet love potion #9
Make his/her love forever mine"

Bring the mixture to a boil then reduce the heat and let it simmer for nine minutes.

Remove cauldron from the heat & allow potion to cool.

Blow nine times upon the potion and bless it in the name of the nine love-goddesses:
Inanna, Ishtar, Astarte, Hathor, Ephthys, Aphrodite, Venus, Freyja & Arianrhod, then strain it through cheesecloth into a clean decorative container befitting its specialness.

Phaedra's Notes:

DO NOT DO THIS SPELL. DO NOT DO LOVE SPELLS. NO NO NO.

That above there? That was a warning. I debated long and hard if I should include this spell and in the end I decided that I should. If you are dumb enough to do a love spell then you deserve all the shit that the universe and Deity is going to throw back at you.

Yes, I've done this spell. Once. It was when I was young and it was the second and last love spell I've ever done. I was seventeen when I did this one? I think. I might have been 18, but just as easily 16. I was madly in love with this boy and I know I was in college. Anyway, I made it and gave it to him. He definitely fell into lust with me but that was about it. It, like every love spell, doesn't make that person your true love but it will make the endorphins kick in just long enough to make you supremely effing sorry.

To top it all off, the boy I chose was a fairly devout Christian. This was unknown to me and I honestly don't know if the teenage me would have cared had she known. I told him the potion was just wine for us to drink. After the potion wore off and we came to our sense he was mortified at what we had done. I was miserable because all he did was bounce between extreme anger and deep depression. It seriously wasn't worth it for a night a fun. He felt that we had to stay together because you don't have sex unless you're going to marry the person. It was stifling and became abusive.

Don't do it. And if you do? Don't come whining to me. I know that sounds horrible, but having done it to myself I think I know what I'm talking about. This is here as a testament as to why love spells are bad. Not to mention the fact that you are forcing someone to be with you. Once the magic wears off (and it will) you will have someone who probably never would have had a relationship with you to begin with. How much fun will that be?