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Could someone give me information on the Plant Mandrake?
Hi! I would like to know about the plant called Mandrake. Is it an annual plant or perennial? Is it a rare plant to buy at a nursery?
Thank you.
Mandrake has been used for hundreds of years as an hallucinogenic and poison. Too much and you die, just the right amount an one has a very trippy experience.
It is called Mandrake because sometimes the root resembles a human figure. It has been a favorite of witches and their like for centuries. I is said to be able to impart magical powers on someone who takes it. It is a member of the Nightshade family and can be obtained through many commercial seed supplies, as can digitalis (a heart medicine and poison) and monkshood (a poison).You might have to find scientific name (see below) they might not sell it under the name Mandrake…Just Google Mandrake and see what you finnd.
Check out the movie Excalibur about King Arthur his sister was a Witch Mordrid?(or Morgana) and she uses Mandrake in the film to (I trhink to trick Merlin?)
Good Luck
Master Quark
And be carefull..If planning to injest might want to find an antidote..and have someone with you…..
Check out Morning glory seeds (Heavenly Blue) very strong hallucinogenic.
Of course I’m sure you are just asking for common knowledge sake!
Below is what Wikipedia say about it!
Mandrake is the common name for members of the plant genus Mandragora belonging to the nightshades family (Solanaceae). Their roots, because their curious bifurcations cause them to have a semblance to the human figure (male & female), have long been used in magic rituals, today also in neopagan religions such as Wicca.
The mandrake, Mandragora officinarum, is a plant called by the Arabs luffâh, or beid el-jinn (i.e. genie’s eggs). The parsley-shaped root is often branched. Magicians mould this root into a rude resemblance to the human figure, by pinching a constriction a little below the top, so as to make a kind of head and neck, and twisting off the upper branches except two, which they leave as arms, and the lower, except two, which they leave as legs. This root gives off at the surface of the ground a rosette of ovate-oblong to ovate, wrinkled, crisp, sinuate-dentate to entire leaves, 6 to 16 in. long, somewhat resembling those of the tobacco-plant. There spring from the neck a number of one-flowered nodding peduncles, bearing whitish-green flowers, nearly 2 in. broad, which produce globular, succulent, orange to red berries, resembling small tomatoes, which ripen in late spring.
In legend it is alleged that when the plant is pulled from the ground, it shrieks in pain. Supposedly, this shriek is able to madden, deafen or even kill an unprotected human; the occult literature includes complex directions for harvesting a mandrake root in relative safety. For example Josephus (c. 37 AD/CE Jerusalem – c. 100) gives the following directions for pulling it up:
“A furrow must be dug around the root until its lower part is exposed, then a dog is tied to it, after which the person tying the dog must get away. The dog then endeavours to follow him, and so easily pulls up the root, but dies suddenly instead of his master. After this the root can be handled without fear.”
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