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Sunday, December 22nd, 2024
the Fourth Week of Advent
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Philtre
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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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.
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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Philtre'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/p/philtre.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Philtre'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/p/philtre.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
