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“Marble Hall Murders,” in which Lesley Manville returns as book-editor/sleuth Susan Ryeland, opens with a teenage coven of druidic pharmacists mixing a noxious potion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

"I don't have a magic potion that I can give to member states" -- especially, she said, the five permanent, veto-wielding members of the Security Council -- so that "everybody's friends."

From Barron's ● Apr. 21, 2026

Besson innovates with a subplot about Dracul’s foray into the world of perfume as he develops an intoxicating fragrance in Florence using French lavender, testing the potion on the pre-Revolution socialites in towering white-powdered wigs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2026

"Felix Felicis!" said one comment, a reference to a potion in the series that makes the drinker lucky for a period of time.

From BBC ● Feb. 4, 2026

She arranged her dress so he wouldn’t splash the potion vials in her pocket.

From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack

This is also when I deploy what I lovingly think of as my potions and powders: anchovy, tomato paste, miso, soy sauce, fish sauce, bouillon paste or cubes, mushroom and brown gravy powder.

From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026

When I was very young, I spent most days there making potions with hair-care products.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 6, 2026

Tracy Brown says former cast member “Sasheer Zamata’s turn as a prickly but charismatic potions witch on ‘Agatha All Along’ is criminally underrated.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2025

This is a job for a seasoned administrator, but sure, might as well give it to the TV host hawking magic potions.

From Slate ● Nov. 23, 2024

Pycelle’s chambers were beneath the rookery, a spacious suite of rooms cluttered with racks of herbs and salves and potions and shelves jammed full of books and scrolls.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin