Food and Drink in Antiquity: A Sourcebook: Readings from the Graeco-Roman World (Bloomsbury Sources in Ancient History) by John F. Donahue

Author:John F. Donahue [Donahue, John F.]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 9781441130983
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2014-11-19T16:00:00+00:00

4.40. Papyri Graecae Magicae (PGM) 4.1390–8

Love spell of attraction carried out with the assistance of heroes or gladiators or those who have died violently: Leave a bit of the bread, which you eat; break it up and shape it into seven bite-size pieces. And go to the place where heroes and gladiators and those who have died a violent death were slain. Say the spell to the pieces of bread and toss them. And pick up some polluted dirt from the place where you perform the rite and throw it inside the house of the woman whom you desire, go on home and go to sleep.

In this spell of attraction food was not to be ingested but smeared on the body part that the petitioner wished to utilize to fulfill his wish.

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