Intention · Certain
Love
A controlled ritual-intention term for love associations.
Profile research status
This stable record is still in evidence review. Its current identity, cultural scope, image, and direct source records are available here; a complete history, myth, worship, iconography, relationship, and reception profile is not yet claimed.
Direct connections and evidence
Explicit Source
even ash-leaf love divination
The relationship describes a named regional love-divination custom, not a universal ash correspondence.
1 attestation · high confidence
- T. F. Thiselton-Dyer, The Folk-Lore of PlantsFirst edition · Wellcome Collection · Folk practice collected in the nineteenth century · North of England · Book The Folk-Lore of Plants · Chapter VIII · Section Love-Charms · Page 93-94
Explicit Source
Sappho petitions Aphrodite in a crisis of love and desired reciprocity
A source-specific prayer, not an automatic recommendation or promise of outcome.
1 attestation · contextual confidence
- Sappho; translated by Gregory Nagy, Sappho 1, Prayer to AphroditeGregory Nagy translation of Sappho 1 on the Center for Hellenic Studies site · translated by Gregory Nagy · Harvard University Center for Hellenic Studies · Archaic Greece · Ancient Greece · Entry Sappho fragment 1 · Line 1-28
Reviewed sources
- T. F. Thiselton-Dyer, The Folk-Lore of Plants (1889)First edition · Wellcome Collection
- Sappho; translated by Gregory Nagy, Sappho 1, Prayer to AphroditeCenter for Hellenic Studies primary-source selection · Harvard University Center for Hellenic Studies