Potions and the Like

"Here is a sure shot for an old maid to get a husband within a year. Raise a 'game rooster" to eleven months old. Kill, and draw before the body cools, cut the heart out and swallow it whole as fast as it can be removed, blood and all, and if she don't choke to death she will be married in 11 months. Our school teacher tried it & she married the janitor. She was 58 and he 61."

On Easter Monday, put on one black garter and one yellow garter, and wear them constantly, and you will have a proposal before the year is out.

"I had a girl friend that wanted a man she was very much in love with, and she borrowed a married woman's yellow garter and put it on her right leg and made a wish that she would get that man, and she did marry him."

A girl can win the love of any sweetheart she may desire by secretly throwing on his clothing some of the powder made by rubbing together a few heart leaves (liverwort) which have been dried before the fire. She may, if she wishes, have a score of lovers by simply carrying the leaves in her bosom.
If you want a person to love you who does not like you, make a drink of the little stout roots of lady's-tresses (Spiranthes) and give it to him, and he will immediately love you.

Take some amaranth seeds, some pounded wheat, the first honey from a new hive, and a white dove's heart, dried and powdered. Make these into a cake, and get your loved one to eat it if you wish to win his love.

A love potion made of a certain number of red and white rose leaves and forget-me-nots, boiled in 385 drops of water for the sixteenth part of an hour, will, if properly made, insure the love of the opposite sex, if three drops of the mixture are put into something the person is to drink.

If a girl wishes a young man to fall in love with her, she may offer him a glass of beer, elder, or lemonade, into which she has stirred a teaspoonful of her fingernails, which have been ground into powder.

Always carry the heart of an owl, and you can get whom you want.

If you can walk nine ties of a railroad track without stepping off the rails, you can marry anyone you choose.

If you can make your forefinger and little finger touch together over the back of your two middle fingers, you can get whomever you want.

Pluck a feather from the tail of a rooster and put it in your glove. Then shake hands with the man you want, and you will get him.

You can secure anyone you want by cutting your nails on nine successive Sundays.

"When you meet a person at a party and you wish him or her to be your affinity, repeat their name in a low voice twenty times right there. Then that night, just before going to sleep, wish twenty times you will see them again, and you will sure get them."

Rub your hands in sweet fern. The first one you shake hands with afterward is your true love.

If a girl tucks a piece of fern or a piece of southern-wood in the toe of her shoe, she will marry the first boy she meets.

Also, if she puts a piece of southernwood down her back, she will marry the first boy she meets. Hence the plant is called "boy's love."

If a marriageable woman puts a piece of southernwood under her pillow on retiring, the first man whom she meets in the morning is the one whom she is to marry.