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- 1. a drink supposed to cause the drinker to feel love and desire for a particular person: "a local witch who sold love potions and charms"
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Type of potion supposed to secure the love of the person to whom it is administered; now generally found in creative works, but formerly popular in the pre-modern world, and still being compounded to this day in the superstitious East
A love potion is a magical liquid which supposedly causes the drinker to develop feelings of love towards the person who served it. Another common term to describe the potion, philtre, is thought to have originated from the ancient Greek term philtron ('love charm'), via the French word philtre. Wikipedia