# Impotensmagi och lite annat
Author: Bappho

Jag läser just nu en bok som heter Magic and Impotence in the middle Ages, skriven av Catherine Rider och jag tänkte att jag skulle dela med mig lite av de gamla besvärjelserna och magiska boten som hon tar upp. Det mesta handlar förstås om impotens, hur man orsakar och botar det på magisk väg, men även lite annat.

## Comment 1
Author: Bappho

..a married couple will love each other for their whole lives if the man wears a male crow's heart as an amulet, and the woman a female crow's heart. _[\-Kyranides](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyranides)_

## Comment 2
Author: Bappho

..if the plant vervain is put under the mattress, any man in the bed will be impotent until it is taken away. _[\-Kyranides](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyranides)_

## Comment 3
Author: Ganna

#3 Vilken/vilka kultursfärer har hon undersökt?

## Comment 4
Author: Bappho

If you want someone to be unable to have intercourse, fix a board, that is, a barrier, wherever he has urinated, over his urine... If you do not want someone to have intercourse and want him to be rather slow in sex, take the growths formed on the wick of a lamp which has spontaneously gone out, while they are still glowing, and extinguish them in his drink, and give it to him to drink, without his knowing; he will quickly be weakened. If you wish someone to be unable to have intercourse with a woman at night, put a garlanded pestle under his bed. _[\-Marcellus Empiricus](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcellus_Empiricus)_

## Comment 5
Author: Bappho

#3 Västeuropa, speciellt perioden 1150-1450

## Comment 6
Author: Ganna

#5 Det blir nog till att sätta upp den på läslistan, någon gång framåt 2012 bör jag ha tid att sätta tänderna i den. :)

## Comment 7
Author: Bappho

"There are also other spells \[_zaubereyen_\] by which, through sticking plants and wood under the influence of Saturn in a man's still-warm urine, they \[witches\] take away someone's manhood." _[\-Bartholomaeus Carrichter](http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartholom%C3%A4us_Carrichter)_