In this book he states, "the mandragora is of the same shape as the human body; the winged dragon is capable of carrying off an ox, and devouring the same whilst flying".
Mandragora called "the hand of glory" in France, xi.
The Mandragora of the Ancients in Folk-lore and Medicine," in Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, No.
The description of the death of Juliet, which Shakespeare, in all probability, conceived from reading the effects that followed the drinking of morion or mandragora wine, is an accurate description of death from that drug.
Dioscorides states that "a drachm of mandragorataken in a draught, or eaten in a cake, causes infatuation, and takes away the use of reason.
Any innovations in the forms prescribed, he added, would occasion such contentions in the nation, that neither poppy nor mandragora could restore it to its former repose.
Probably the use of mandragora as a narcotic may have continued much later than the thirteenth century.
The being called mandragora was, as we see, a kind of "Spiritus familiaris.
The mandragora reveals hidden things and future events, and procures for the owner the friendship of all men.
If you buy the mandragora it remains with you, throw it wherever you will, until you sell it again.
The mandragora or alrun[52] is originally a very rare herb which can hardly be found except below the gallows where a pure youth has been hanged.
There was no mandragora in the honorary draught of learning that he had bought.
Then he sat at the window again and let the city put its cup of mandragora to his lips again.
Mandragora seems to have had a great reputation in times past,--so much so that it is probable that more than one substance was included under this term.
Mandragora was extensively used as an anaesthetic by Hugo de Lucca, who practised in the 13th century.
Now that we have brought mandragora and moly into connection with the ordinary magical superstitions of savage peoples, let us see what is made of the subject by another method.
Plato and Demosthenes {146a} also speak of mandragora as a soporific.
The waters of Mandragora are of a curiously soporific character, while those of the River Madeira have a toxic quality which renders them dangerous when drunk in large quantities.
Near its junction with the Mandragorait runs uphill for several miles, with the result that the canoes were constantly capsizing.
They used opium and mandragora for this purpose and later employed an inhalant mixture, the composition of which is not absolutely known.
Plato and Demosthenes[159] also speak of mandragora as a soporific.
It is a popular French superstition that mandragora or "the hand of glory," as it is called by the people, may be found by digging at the root of a mistletoe-bearing oak.
They that dygge mandragorabe besy to beware of contrary wyndes whyle they digge.
If mandragora be taken out of measure by and by slepe ensueth and a great lousing of the streyngthe with a forgetfulness.
The Mandragora officinalis is quite common in Celicia, Syria, and elsewhere in the East, and is easily identifiable with the root of Baaras, which Josephus describes in the Wars of the Jews.
It is true that Shakespeare regarded mandragora as an opiate, for he makes Cleopatra to exclaim: 'Give me to drink mandragora, That I might sleep out this great gap of time My Antony is away.
Mandragora] sodden in wine cause sleep, and abate all manner of soreness, and so that time a man feeleth unneth though he be cut, but yet Mandragora must be warily used: for it slayeth if men take much thereof.
They that dig Mandragorabe busy to beware of contrary winds while they dig, and make three circles about with a sword, and abide with the digging unto the sun going down, and trow so to have the herb with the chief virtues.
The mandragora of Elephantine was used in the manufacture of an intoxicating and narcotic drink employed either in medicine or in magic.
When these messengers were straightway brought to him, the Majesty of the god said: 'Let them run to Elephantine and bring me mandragora in plenty.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mandragora" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
