Jacob And the Mandrakes
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Veth, ' De Alruin en de Heggerank,' Internationales Arehiv fur Ethnographic, vii. (1894) pp. 81-8, 199-205 ; Frederick Starr, ' Notes on the Mandragora,' The American Antiquarian and OrientalJoumal, xxiii. (1901) pp. 268-68 ; W. Hertz, Gesammelte Abhandlungen (Stuttgart and Berlin, 1905), pp. 273-5 ; Ch. Brewster Randolph, ' The Mandragora of the Ancients in Folk-lore and Medicine,' Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, vol. xl. No. 12, January 1906, pp. 487-537 ; Rendel Har...ris, ' The Origin of the Cult of Aphrodite,' The Ascent of Olympus (Manchester, 1917), pp. 107-140. Our word mandrake is a corruption of the Greek mandragoras.
6 PROCEEDINGS OF THE BRITISH ACADEMY as to present a rude resemblance to a human figure.^ Hence the J^ythagoreans, whose so-called philosophy was to a great extent simply folk-lore,^ called the mandrake the anthropomorphic or man- like plant,^ and Columella speaks of it as semi-human.* The Arabs call it the ' face of an idol ', or the * man-plant ', on account of the strong resemblance of the root to the human form.^ An old writer tells us that the mandrake was fashioned out of the same earth whereof God created Adam, and that its likeness to a man is a wile of the devil which distinguishes it above all other plants ; for that reason, when a mandrake is dug up, it should be placed for a day and a night in a running stream,* no doubt in order to wash out the taint of its diabolic association.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Veth, ' De Alruin en de Heggerank,' Internationales Arehiv fur Ethnographic, vii. (1894) pp. 81-8, 199-205 ; Frederick Starr, ' Notes on the Mandragora,' The American Antiquarian and OrientalJoumal, xxiii. (1901) pp. 268-68 ; W. Hertz, Gesammelte Abhandlungen (Stuttgart and Berlin, 1905), pp. 273-5 ; Ch. Brewster Randolph, ' The Mandragora of the Ancients in Folk-lore and Medicine,' Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, vol. xl. No. 12, January 1906, pp. 487-537 ; Rendel Har...ris, ' The Origin of the Cult of Aphrodite,' The Ascent of Olympus (Manchester, 1917), pp. 107-140. Our word mandrake is a corruption of the Greek mandragoras.
6 PROCEEDINGS OF THE BRITISH ACADEMY as to present a rude resemblance to a human figure.^ Hence the J^ythagoreans, whose so-called philosophy was to a great extent simply folk-lore,^ called the mandrake the anthropomorphic or man- like plant,^ and Columella speaks of it as semi-human.* The Arabs call it the ' face of an idol ', or the * man-plant ', on account of the strong resemblance of the root to the human form.^ An old writer tells us that the mandrake was fashioned out of the same earth whereof God created Adam, and that its likeness to a man is a wile of the devil which distinguishes it above all other plants ; for that reason, when a mandrake is dug up, it should be placed for a day and a night in a running stream,* no doubt in order to wash out the taint of its diabolic association.
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