Love Magnet

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The Love Magnet is a fictional item in the Oz books. It looks like a standard, horseshoe-shaped magnet, but instead of attracting metal, it makes people and other creatures friendly to whoever holds it.

It first appears in The Road to Oz, wherein the Shaggy Man claims to have been given it by an Eskimo in the Sandwich Islands. At the end of the book, he admits to having stolen it from a girl in Butterfield who it was making unhappy because it made men love her so much that they were constantly fighting for her affections. Ozma decrees that it should be placed in an arch over the entrance to the Emerald City, so that everyone who enters the city will immediately be liked and welcomed.