APPENDIX TO the CHAPITRE IV

N 1. - councils of Ovide

We prefer to these singular receipts the advices of Ovide, _Art to like ( love ? ) _, Livre III.

It is few figures and body without defects, know how to hide them.

If you are of small size, remain sat ( based ? ) or spread ( widened ? ) on your bed and there, so that we do not notice your size, recover your feet of your dress.

If you are too thin, carry ( wear ? ) thick and not sticky clothes.

Have you the pale complexion? Put a little red.

You are too brown, use ( employ ? ) the poison of Pharos (white was pulled ( fired ? ) by the intestines of the crocodile, was replaced by the rice powder today).

A beautiful shoe always has to hide a deformed foot. A dry and thin leg must be always surrounded well. That slender small cushions return equal shoulders; that a light veil covers bosoms when they are too much raised ( brought up ? ) or too ample.

If you have thick fingers, little polished nails, made least gestures possible by speaking.

Do not speak on an empty stomach if you have the bad breath and be always held far from your interlocutor.

Avoid laughing, if you have the black, too long or badly arranged teeth.

N 2. - Filters and magic

Vatsyayana gives some more the other receipts, the some superstitious, the other singular. We shall give only an idea.

1 ° bizarre Compositions of 6 powders; a man who anoints his linga with one of them makes a boss of such woman as he wants.

2 ° make-up consisted with the residue of the combustion of bone of camels, owls, vultures and peacocks give an unlimited power of seduction.

A certain composition mixed by dropping of monkeys and thrown ( cast ? ) on a girl as a lot ( fate ? ) prevents him ( it ? ) from getting married never.

If a lacquer saturated seven times with the sweat of the testicles of a white horse is applied to a red lip, this one becomes white; she ( it ? ) becomes again red, if we rub her ( it ? ) with a certain plant compound.

Of any time, till the end of the Middle Age, we believed in the power of filters and magic to make like ( love ? ) or hate, enrich, live or die.

Of the time of Ovide and Pétrone, we made go back up ( raise ? ) to the witches of the Thessalie this art carried ( worn ? ) in Rome doubtless at first by the Greeks.

In the next centuries, the influence of the ideas and the Indian superstitions was dominating in Rome, especially on the heathen (Juvénal in its satires quotes several times the Indians). She ( it ? ) dominated in Constantinople and in all the East hanging the low Empire, even when reigned the mysticism; under Justinien, in the VIth century, everybody believed in the magic. There were receipts sold to the weight of the gold, especially to make die. We used ( employed ? ) collectively enchanted spices, notably the mandrake and also the fish Rémora, bones of frogs, the stone astroïte, the hippomane and the other drugs.

The emperor Justinien considered thaumaturge and liked persuading him ( it ? ) the others. We said in the people that the Emperor was a devil and could be transformed at will. The grave lawyer Tribonien said to him ( her ? ) with conviction or by flattery that he could be made when he wanted a pure spirit and to transport itself everywhere supernaturally.