Word: potion
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...falls prey to a heated young gallant (Philippe Leroy) who merely wants to get her to bed and does. The lover presses his suit with life-or-death urgency, disguising himself as the luckless lout who is supposed to perish by black magic after Lucrezia has downed a potion brewed of mandragola, or mandrake root, and spent the night with him. Once conquered, Lucrezia cherishes the lad's do-or-die passion, ultimately scores her own sexual coup over the hypocrisy shown in the affair by her cuckolded husband, her amoral mother and a venal priest...
...Love Potion No. 9. The American presence is felt in ways other than the military. In Korat's swinging nightspots (ranging from the Pizza Palace to the Playboy Bar), crew-cut G.I.s dance with Thai girls in skintight trousers and bouffant hairdos that glint with Helene Curtis spray (a top PX item despite the fact that no American military dependents are allowed in Thailand). Ubiquitous transistors thrum with American pop tunes (current favorite: Love Potion No. 9), and such examples of American cuisine as cheeseburgers and chicken-in-the-basket now grace the menus in Udorn. The U.S. Army...
...resurrected, might not Christ have been? Through the night, the old conquistador keeps watch over the slain god's body with desperate hope. When the Inca fails to stir, Pizarro lets out a strangled cry of "Cheat" over the corpse as if he had choked down a hemlock potion of love and loss...
Seychelles were the lost site of the Garden of Eden. His reasoning: they are the only source of the fabled coco de mer, whose giant 40-lb. fruit, long valued as a love potion, must have been what Eve really fed to Adam...
...support Owegbe-backed political candidates, a form of intimidation banned by Nigerian law. To ensure compliance with Owegbe commands, initiates were ushered through a grisly ritual, cut three times on the cheek or chest, then made to eat the heart of a cockerel and down a loathsome liquid potion brewed from kola nuts and wine and the blood, hair, finger and toenails of a dead cultist. They finally bound themselves to Owegbe with 24 oaths, each ending with a chilling refrain: "If I refuse . . . let Owegbe make juju...