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Irish love magic for the day that's in it: Thread
In medieval Ireland people believed in love magic whether to help or hinder love (so good vs bad lurve magic)
Even the great and the good dabbled in it>
In medieval Ireland people believed in love magic whether to help or hinder love (so good vs bad lurve magic)
Even the great and the good dabbled in it>
Once a man came to St Brigit to seek assistance in love. He asked for a spell or a charm to make his wife love him.
He is described as "whom his wife hated", Brigit blessed water. he sprinkled his wife with it & she straightway "loved him passionately".
#MagicSaint
He is described as "whom his wife hated", Brigit blessed water. he sprinkled his wife with it & she straightway "loved him passionately".
#MagicSaint
Even Colum Cille worked some magic to sort other people’s love lives
He is also visited by a husband in distress. Whose wife hates him and refuses to have sex. When Colum Cille said she should do her conjugal duty she said she could 1).remain with her husband as celibate woman>
He is also visited by a husband in distress. Whose wife hates him and refuses to have sex. When Colum Cille said she should do her conjugal duty she said she could 1).remain with her husband as celibate woman>
OR
could GO ACROSS THE SEA TO LIVE IN A NUNNERY (exile preferable to that man)
CC said-let’s have a fast and a pray about it and whaddyaknow she arrived next day and said she now loved her husband. Apparently she was ‘glued’ in love to her husband until the day of her death.
could GO ACROSS THE SEA TO LIVE IN A NUNNERY (exile preferable to that man)
CC said-let’s have a fast and a pray about it and whaddyaknow she arrived next day and said she now loved her husband. Apparently she was ‘glued’ in love to her husband until the day of her death.
Other clergy bloody hated love magic:
Penitential of Finnian 6thC says
If any cleric or woman who practises magic have led astray anyone by their magic, it is a monstrous sin, but it can be expiated by penance
'led astray'
Penitential of Finnian 6thC says
If any cleric or woman who practises magic have led astray anyone by their magic, it is a monstrous sin, but it can be expiated by penance
'led astray'
He also said If, however, such a person has not led astray anyone but has given [something] for the sake of wanton love to someone, he shall do penance for an entire year on an allowance of bread and water.
Might have been giving some aphrodisiacs...
Might have been giving some aphrodisiacs...
Aphrodisiacs could include
herbs, plants, roots, mushrooms (FINE), animal parts (WHICH PARTS EXACTLY) human body hair and secretions (ERM), text on parchment, baptismal oil, communion wafers or bits of all of these and possible other 'intersting' additions
Secretions though
herbs, plants, roots, mushrooms (FINE), animal parts (WHICH PARTS EXACTLY) human body hair and secretions (ERM), text on parchment, baptismal oil, communion wafers or bits of all of these and possible other 'intersting' additions
Secretions though
Love magic in legal sources. It is referred to as bed witchcraft’, but it literally means ‘the [supernatural] attack of a bed’. It’s negative love magic carried out by a 3rd party and designed to make a man impotent because OF COURSE THAT’S SOMEONE ELSE’S FAULT
Women who were married while under the influence of a spell could divorce their husbands and get their dowry and all their goods.
Imagine that moment when the spell wore off
Imagine that moment when the spell wore off
Finally noted Irish hero Finn MacCumaill, was sent nine magic nuts by a woman who told him to eat them. “Nay”, says Find, “for they are not nuts of knowledge, but nuts of ignorance and ...an enchantment for drinking love”. So he buried them a foot deep in the earth.
You read that right
He buried his nuts in the earth, a foot deep
Happy Valentine's
He buried his nuts in the earth, a foot deep
Happy Valentine's
