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Updated: June 17, 2025
'If a hereditary thief who has preserved his chastity gets hung, the broad-leafed, yellow-flowered mandrake grows up, in his likeness, beneath the gallows from which he is suspended.
Their business was based on the great profits that were offered by the possession of a homunculus and that are equivalent to those of mandrake alum. Mandrake alum gave a certain impetus to the development of the homunculus idea and practice. It can be shown that secrets of procreation seem partly to underlie this also.
"Nothing but the stir of the mandrake trees, beloved." "Nay, but dost thou not hear a step?" "Naught, child of the heaven-flowers, but a dog's foot in the moss." "Thou art sure that my father is safe?" "The Prince is safe, angel of the high clouds. He led the hillsmen by the secret way into the Palace yard."
Why, there wasn't a nook or a corner that some fibre had not worked its way into; and when I gave the last wrench, each of them seemed to shriek like a mandrake, as it broke its hold and came away. There is nothing that happens, you know, which must not inevitably, and which does not actually, photograph itself in every conceivable aspect and in all dimensions.
Turning first to Germany, we note the beliefs, not about the potato, but about another vegetable, the mandrake. Of all roots, in German superstition, the Alraun, or mandrake, is the most famous. The herb was conceived of, in the savage fashion, as a living human person, a kind of old witch-wife. Again, the root has a human shape.
He used to compare reputation to snuff, which may be beneficial if used occasionally and moderately, but which clouds and injures the brain when used in excess; and to the mandrake which is soothing when smelt at a distance, but if brought too close, induces drowsiness and lethargy.
In surgery the world has progressed, but in medicine, doctors have progressed most, by consigning to the grave, that tells no tales, the deadly materia medica. In Aristotle's childhood, when his father was both guide and physician to the king, on hunting trips through the mountains, the doctor taught the boys to recognize sarsaparilla, stramonium, hemlock, hellebore, sassafras and mandrake.
Cap'n Cod would have telegraphed to Sheriff Riley but for the fact that the wires had not yet been extended to Mandrake. So he wrote and begged the Sheriff to hasten down the river by first boat.
She had heard say that it was a dangerous thing, and that it was wicked to keep it; but knew nothing of its use. Asked, in what place this mandrake was, and what she had heard of it? she said that she had heard that it grew under the tree of which mention has been made, but did not know the place; she said also that she had heard that above the mandragora was a hazel tree.
"Is your own shadow not enough for you? What a strange bargain!" "No price is too high for this invaluable shadow. I have many a precious thing in my pocket, which you may choose a mandrake, the dish-cloth of Roland's page, Fortunati's purse " "What! Fortunati's purse?"
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