I don't have time to write up an appropriate article for this, and I'd have to learn Swedish and travel to Sweden to do it properly.
I've been reading Thomas K. Johnson's dissertation, Til och Vandelrot: Magical Representations in the Swedish Black Art Book Tradition. He reprints the text of many black art books from Sweden, including one now kept at the Eslövs Museum as manuscript EM 3329 B. The book was the work of Bengt Ahlström (1827-1919), a local curer called "The Professor," and bears the date April 13, 1865. Item 7 in Johnson's translation reads as follows:
"So that a mother can with one method cure her children from troubles of all kinds. When man and woman have "the way of their flesh" together, and the woman then dries off her "secret parts", the moisture and the slime that falls from her, this she should take when it is released from the mouth. Wash then this lip in a little running water that is taken with the stream and spit into the river before you take it. And just as the outside a little can get in and a little of the inside can get out, just so shall you smear them over their entire bodies, each joint and limb, and give them internally from this water in the new and waning moons, but be careful that no one puts their hands on or touches this salve, or any person drinks from it or not either that any mouse comes too near to it, for then it won't help at all." (p. 257)
This particular passage is notable as an instance of sexual fluids being used as part of a magical procedure in Sweden at a time contemporaneous with Paschal Beverly Randolph. Even if it is only an interesting anomaly in the history of Western sex magic, I thought it deserved mention.
Sincerely,
Dan Harms
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