What is "philtres"

Usage examples of "philtres".

By now I am a crackling sorcerer of grub and booze, of philtres and sex-spells.

But as for this Zachariah, I know he sells philtres at ten dinars the bottle: his shop is crowded with rich old women.

SELIM There can be no doubt that there are philtres which drive women to love, though their hearts be as strong and their heads as cold as the mountains of Qaf.

But after seven years, when the girls grow old and ugly, they send them back to their kindred, giving them, however, as compensation, a knowledge of herbs and philtres and secret spells, by which they can kill or cure, and have power over men both for good and evil.