History of love magic

History of love magic

Human sensuality is strongly connected with the qualities of the body. Rituals of love magic - referring to carnality understood in this way - were present in all religions and cultures of the world, and their remnants have been preserved in the customs of various peoples to this day. Traces of them in language are such expressions denoting love as: "to charm someone" or "to bewitch."

For man, eroticism was a way of contacting the other world, a ceremonial mediation, a contact with a force that represented the power of life. Hence the numerous rites, incantations and rituals of initiation marked the entrance of girls and boys into the period of mature life, which opened up sexual activities to them. Nuptials, wedding night, the conception of a child, birth and the naming of a child had a similar setting.

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The men of the Trobriand Islands, as described by Bronislaw Malinowski, undertake a variety of procedures to bend a girl's heart to themselves: they wash the body in the sea and wipe it with spongy leaves from certain shrubs mixed with the leaves of a tree with particularly smooth bark; they throw the used leaves into the sea, pronouncing the name of the desired girl; the "kasina" ritual enchants a bit of food with which the man treats the girl; around the leg or arm, he ties a so-called "knot of flattery" - an ornamental knot. a knot of flattery - an ornamental string signifying admiration for the chosen girl, which is supposed to evoke favorable feelings in her mind; magical touch and smell - using the herb kwoyawage, which he puts into a pot of coconut oil, intoning incantations about unfolding and folding a mat used as a bed for love hugs (this oil is spread during dancing or in graft games on the girl's body - preferably on her breasts or on her face).

There are also separate rituals of rejection spells - counteracting the charm of a rival and drawing the desired girl away from her husband or lover, as well as spells to draw back a woman who has left due to the magical influence of others.

Love spells have always been supernatural actions - signs, things, gestures and means to arouse or enhance love. Going to dances, girls would put the roots of certain herbs in their shoes because they resembled the male member, give the chosen man his own handkerchief to wipe his face with, pee in their beloved's shoes or give him an apple that they had previously held between their legs. Boys would put the tongue of a turtledove or swallow in their mouths before kissing, and to get their beloved back they would cut off a lock of her hair and bury it in a crossroads.