La mort pour l'amour

Adalind looks up the recipe for Zaubertrank #23.

Le mort pour l'amour (lə MOR poor LA-mor; Fr. "death for love") or Zaubertrank 23 (TSOW-bər-tronk; Grimm: ZOW-ber-tronk; Germ. "magic potion") is a recipe for chocolate chip cookies tainted with a love potion for two specific people (the "deceived" and the "deceiver") and a curse for anyone besides who consumes it besides the "deceived".

Recipe

A partial list of ingredients for the recipe:

• Salted butter
• Sugar
• 5 tsps sea salt
• 1 tsp baking soda
• coeur diable (devil's heart)
• rot inguen (red genitals)
• Essigblasse (pale vinegar)

Excerpt from the recipe:

Add blood of the deceived and blood
of the deceiver. Stir until blood is
dissolved.

Add chocolate chips.
Divide dough into three large balls.

Effects

Upon oral ingestion, the deceived falls madly in love with the deceiver. Once the deceiver and deceived engage in sexual intercourse, the deceived falls into a coma and dies in less than 24 hours.

Anyone other than the deceived who receives this potion orally falls victim to the spell's curse. The victims symptoms include a massive wart breakout and induces the impulsive ingestion of foreign bodies. The first of these symptoms is curable with Keim (germ) extract and a mixture of other herbs, but this does not break the spell.

Spellbreak

Up to the point of sexual intercourse, the spell may be broken using an inhaled antidote which can be administered using a nasuflamme.

The spell may also be broken in the traditional manner of killing its spellcaster.

Trivia

"Zaubertrank 23" may be a tribute to "Love Potion #9", a song by the Clovers. #9 causes the singer to fall in love with everything he sees, and he ultimately kisses a cop on a street corner who in turn crushes the bottle holding the potion.

Images

Wu after the treatment.

Wu poisoned when he ate cookies with the Zaubertrank 23 spell.