How to Make Love Potion #9

Wave a wand, cast a spell, or bewitch a lover with the most popular of all love elixirs - Love Potion #9. Our taste buds are directly linked to the pleasure center in our brains; the place where our sex drive, memory, and mood resides. This sweet and intoxicating love potion taps into the endorphins that make sensual and erotic feelings run wild. Love potion #9 is said to have the power to cause whomever drinks it to fall in love with the person who gave it to them. This Valentine's Day, why not whip up a batch and serve it to your loved one with a candle lit dinner?

Instructions

Difficulty: Easy

Things You’ll Need:

• 9 oz. sweet red wine
• 9 apple seed
• 9 basil leaves
• p cloves
• 9 drops of vanilla extract
• 9 drops of strawberry juice
• 9 drops of apple juice
• 9 small pieces of ginseng root
• 9 pink votive candles
• cauldron or cast iron pot
• wooden spoon

1. By the light of 9 pink votive candles, put the nine ingredients into a cauldron or cast iron pot on the ninth hour of the ninth day of the ninth month of the year. Note: The "ninth" hour of the day is considered to be 9:00 a.m.
2. Stir the potion nine times with a wooden spoon, each time reciting the following magickal incantation:
   
   LET THE ONE WHO DRINKS THIS WINE
   SHOWER ME WITH LOVE DIVINE.
   SWEET LOVE POTION NUMBER NINE
   MAKE HIS/HER LOVE FOREVER MINE.
3. Bring the mixture to a boil and then reduce the heat and let it simmer for nine minutes.
4. Freyja, depicted in a painting by J. Penrose. Remove the cauldron from the heat and allow the potion to cool off. Blow nine times upon the potion, and bless it in the names of nine love-goddesses: Inanna, Ishtar, Astarte, Hathor, Nephthys, Aphrodite, Venus, Freya, Arianrhod.
5. Strain the potion through cheesecloth into a clean container. Cover and refrigerate it until you are ready to serve it to the man or woman from whom you desire love and affection.

Tips & Warnings

• Do not allow anyone other than your beloved to look at, touch, or drink the love potion.
• You may substitute cherry soda or Koolaid if you cannot drink alcohol.
• Exercise extreme caution when using this potion as it is considered to be very potent. Be absolutely certain about the person you intend to bewitch because you will be stuck with your intended lover for a long time. The results have been reported to be very intense, often difficult to control, and difficult to reverse.
• This spell is provided for your entertainment only. I accept no responsibility for effects or consequences of casting the spell referred to in this article. Cast spells responsibly.