Ancient Egyptian love spells between women, and one later coptic one between two men. From what I've found, there are more than just these three featured here, but I have not been able to find their direct sources :/ anyhow, it makes you wonder—were these spells done on request through a magic user or by the own hand of the smitten three?
“Inflame the heart, the liver, the spirit of Gorgonia, whom Nilogenia bore, with love & affection for Sophia, whom Isara bore. Constrain Gorgonia, whom Nilogenia bore, to cast herself into the bathhouse for the sake of Sophia”
Furthermore, roughly similar time period source of an Egyptian temple also has a priestess chastising young girls there for neglecting their duties and instead 'pursuing one another' or something along those lines, whilst implying something quite specific... I cannot remember where I read that at this point, but it was corroborated by a primary source.
Whether the Egyptian ones were commissioned for priestesses to cast or if done privately at the hands of the lovestruck woman is not known, though the implication of there possibly having been acceptance for love spells to be made at temples is a really interesting one; sapphic love in general was often ignored in many of these larger civilizations, outright discouraged or thought to not even exist despite uranian love doing so and being seen as natural. This disinterest can often be chalked up to subjugation and an discrepant, unequivocal elevating of male sexuality—aswell as the pride, virility and power in that—whilst female sexuality took a massive backseat...
Sapphic love; Uranian love.
Jennifer Cromwell Magic in the ancient world provided one means to help people deal with what life threw at them, whether health, money, or
