Love Magic

Mela 'fruit' - apples, pomegranates and quinces, are associated in various mythologies and rituals with marriage. The traditional explanation is that these fruits are filled with seeds and therefore stand for fertility. Apples are also used in love magic to make a woman lust after the man who throws them.
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Also, on the topic of ancient magic....
Lucius Apuleius was a philosopher and rhetorician tried for using magic to win an older, wealthy bride, but he's better known for his novel about the mysteries of Isis, the tale of Cupid and Psyche, and the semi-biographical misadventures of its hero, Lucius.
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