This one seemed dubious to me. My friend was telling me that Cleopatra was credited with it's invention. Story involves something like having filling a hollowed out gourd with agitated bees then capping it. Is there any legitimacy to this claim?
All references to this story that mention a source -- and they are few -- wind back, via one route or another, to Brenda Love's 1992 book The Encyclopedia of Unusual Sex Practices, in a section on "entomophilia":
Cleopatra is said to have had a small box that could be filled with bees and placed against her genitals for a stimulation similar to that of vibrators.
There are no ancient sources that touch on any claim remotely similar to this. If there are any archaeological finds that could be misconstrued in this way I have not found any evidence of them. Love cites no sources that allow the story to be traced back further (she mentions Havelock Ellis a few sentences later, but that's in connection with something else). So: the above line seems to be the original source for the story.
Whether Love made it up out as a result of an honest misunderstanding or not, I cannot say for sure. But it is so completely unconnected to anything actually attested in ancient sources that I am not optimistic about her motives.
tl;dr: it's complete bollocks. The story was made up in 1992.