Venom of Desire - Copper-Clad Rattlesnake Fang with Venus Oil

"Venom of Desire," 2026.
Media: copper-clad rattlesnake fang with Venus oil.

The old Latin word venenum did not mean poison alone. It meant poison, yes, but also potion, charm, love-philter, and the power to enter the heart and change it.

That word comes to us from the name of the goddess of desire, Venus.

The old poets understood desire itself as something venomous.

Cupid's arrows did not merely inspire affection - they were tipped with the venom of seduction, sent by Venus to cause hidden fire in the blood.

Behind the softened later image of Venus there still lingers an older star-born power - the Mesopotamian Inanna. She is said to have planted a tree in her garden that had "a serpent immune to enchantments" nested in its roots.

The ancients recognized seduction as intoxicating and overpowering as poison - and longing that burned through the blood and into the heart like a serpent's bite.

This piece was crafted from a genuine rattlesnake fang and copper, and sanctified in honor of that older understanding of desire as venom: as fascination - the power to enthrall, inflame, enchant, and compel.

It comes with a roller bottle of my Ancient Venus oil, made in pomegranate oil with the full Venus materia from Agrippa's Venus incense: real musk, ambergris, and lignum aloes, red rose, red coral, and the dried blood, brain, and heart of a pigeon, per the ancient formula.

To grant to its wearer attraction, erotic magnetism, fascination, glamour, and the power to inflame lust through the blood and to intoxicate the heart with desire.

May Venus tip all the arrows of your love with her intoxicating venom, and may all your lovers burn with that ancient desire.

Details

• One-of-one copper-clad rattlesnake fang
• Genuine rattlesnake fang
• Copper chain included
• Roller bottle of Venus oil included
• Venus oil base: pomegranate oil
• Venus oil materia: musk, ambergris, lignum aloes, red rose, red coral, dehydrated sparrow brain, and dehydrated pigeon blood
• Shipping weight: 4 oz