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Updated: June 17, 2025
It is more to the purpose of magic that Columella mentions 'the half-human mandragora. Here we touch the origin of the mandrake superstitions.
But these mandrake fables are mostly of foreign extraction and of very ancient date. Dr. Basil, writes Lord Bacon in his "Natural History," if exposed too much to the sun, changes into wild thyme; and a Bavarian piece of folk-lore tells us that the person who, during an eclipse of the sun, throws an offering of palm with crumbs on the fire, will never be harmed by the sun.
The mandrake, as a mystic plant, was extensively sold for medicinal purposes, and in Kent may be occasionally found kept to cure barrenness; and it may be remembered that La Fontaine's fable, La Mandragore, turns upon its supposed power of producing children.
And without trusting himself to linger longer, Judas turned and went on his way. It was the month of Shebet, answering to the latter part of our January, and Palestine was already bright with the beauty of early spring. The purple mandrake was in flower, the crocus, tulip, and hyacinth enamelled the fields, with the blue lily contrasting with thousands of scarlet anemones.
Sheriff Riley, who had only reached Mandrake half an hour before, was staring at Winn, and saying to himself, "There's the young rascal now. I knew it wasn't that other fellow, though somehow his face is strangely familiar too." There was a momentary hesitation on all sides.
Among the numberless fruits which from time to time have been regarded as divine emblems, the principal are perhaps the fig, the pomegranate, the mandrake, the almond, and the olive.
"Don't let the fact that he's an overseer fool you. He's smarter than most of his kind, but just as ugly. He's a mandrake, and you can't afford to mess with him." Hanson looked at the ancient, wrinkled face of the mandrake and shuddered. There was the complete incarnation of inhumanity in the thing's expression.
Otto turned the ring the second time, and Aurelia's silvery accents immediately became audible to the following effect: "If that fool Otto were here, he would buy it for me." She turned away, and walked down the street. Otto uttered a cry like the shriek of an uprooted mandrake.
"She has friends in the Ghetto and friends in the White House. We went down to the Duponts', on Long Island, and Dupont said she " "Oh, please, Jim!" Julia said seriously. "Dupont said she was one of the most interesting women he ever talked to," Jim continued inexorably, "and John Mandrake wanted to paint her!" "Tell me the news!" begged Julia.
This is briony-root carved like a mandrake into the shape of a man's legs. It is worthless, I fear; but I thank you for the kind thought, Mr. Norris," and he gave the root back to him. "And the stories we hear of the mandrake, I fear, are fables, too.
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