DiscoverRenaissance English History Podcast: A Show About the Tudors[YouTube Drop] Tudor Love Potions and Deadly Brews
[YouTube Drop] Tudor Love Potions and Deadly Brews

[YouTube Drop] Tudor Love Potions and Deadly Brews

Update: 2025-10-28
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In Tudor England, potions promised power, whether to spark desire or to silence rivals. In this spooky Halloween Spooky Week minicast, we’re diving into real Tudor recipes for love and poison, pulled straight from 16th-century sources like The Good Huswifes Jewell and early herbals.

Here's the link to the Haunted Tudor London halloween tour: https://www.englandcast.com/haunted-tudor-london-walk/

Sources:

https://carolcmcgrath.co.uk/aphrodisiacs-in-tudor-times/

https://www.historyanswers.co.uk/medieval-renaissance/mandrake-menstrual-blood-10-medieval-love-potion-recipes-and-ingredients

https://distillatio.wordpress.com/2013/12/16/medieval-poisons-for-killing-animals-and-people/



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[YouTube Drop] Tudor Love Potions and Deadly Brews

[YouTube Drop] Tudor Love Potions and Deadly Brews