"The Ojibwa horror of love medicine suggested to me a horror like that they attached to the tongue-abduction. Both were sneak assaults on human will. Love medicine was considered the ugliest sorcery and the explanation of rape; romantic sex was prized, seen as a 'hunt' and a game, by men especially. There were several love-medicine prescriptions, transferred with or without cost, depending on the relations of the parties. [...] Like any sorcery, including the herbal, love formulas were revealed anciently in visions and were subsequently transmitted verbally.
"In old and contemporary tales, the victim falls into a hypnotic relationship with the sorcerer, showing abnormal or overwhelming lust. The victim, male or female, trails the medicine-wielder or 'owner' and makes shocking sexual displays and demands in public. Women, reportedly, would throw their skirts over their heads, exposing themselves (though white communities told similar tales of some of their women), regardless of age. An afflicted man attacked the woman sorcerer sexually at any opportunity, pursuing her constantly. Those who [sorcerers] conquered thus were defeated in the end, however. For the victim underwent complete decay, informants said. If the sorcerer then deserted, it appeared that the victim could never be cured. [...] (Ojibwa Religion, Landes)."