It is a feat full of the greatest danger to obtain it. Mandrake in the Codex Dioscurides Neapolitanus, an illuminated Greek manuscript created in the early 7th-century The plant, however, has great power, and whosoever is its possessor never more knows what it is to want money. It is an unsightly object to look at, and has broad, dark green leaves, with a single yellow flower. It is a well-known tradition near Magdeburg, that when a man who is a thief by inheritance,-that is to say, whose father and grandfather and great-grandfather before him, three generations of his family, have been thieves or whose mother has committed a theft, or been possessed with an intense longing to steal something at the time immediately preceding his birth it is the tradition that if such a man should be hanged, at the foot of the gallows whereon his last breath was exhaled will spring up a plant of hideous form known as the Alraun or Gallows Mannikin. Gibbings included a local anecdote (Magdeburg) about the Mandrake (Alraune in German):
In his FOLK-LORE and LEGENDS – GERMANY (1892), W. These phantoms and shapes however, change their appearance and nature according to his emotions and gradually he is able to make his visions more light and pleasant. He also describes his worry about a light paralysis effect in his sacrum region, before the first hallucinations, of mostly dark nebula like shapes and phantoms occur.
The tincture is most likely the only relative safe way to experiment with this herb, although Douval describes anxiety feelings due to an accelerated pulse, and it cost him a lot of effort to withhold himself from leaving his room and go out, shouting and doing silly things in public. Douval (pseudonym of Herbert Döhren – 1906-1975), describes two experiments with drops of mandrake tincture.
In one of his works on practical magic ( Bücher der praktischen Magie, Band VII ), the German magician H.E. Hyperactivity and hallucinations also occurred in the majority of patients. Clinical reports of the effects of consumption of Mediterranean mandrake include severe symptoms similar to those of atropine poisoning, including blurred vision, dilation of the pupils (mydriasis), dryness of the mouth, difficulty in urinating, dizziness, headache, vomiting, blushing and a rapid heart rate (tachycardia). The alkaloid concentration varies between plant samples. Ingesting mandrake root is likely to have other adverse effects such as vomiting and diarrhoea. Anticholinergic properties can lead to asphyxiation. The alkaloids are concentrated in the root and leaves, poisonous, via anticholinergic, hallucinogenic, and hypnotic effects. All species of Mandragora contain highly biologically active alkaloids, tropane alkaloids in particular. The use of mandrakes for medical or hallucinogenic effects are not without danger. Mandrake tincture is most likely the only relative safe way to experiment with this herb. When the 31st day arrives, take out the root in the middle of the night and dry it in an oven heated with branches of verbena then wrap it up in a piece of a dead man’s winding-sheet and carry it with you everywhere.’ For 30 days, water it with cow’s milk in which three bats have been drowned. Cut off the ends of the root and bury it at night in some country churchyard in a dead man’s grave. Take it out of the ground on a Monday (the day of the moon), a little time after the vernal equinox. ‘Would you like to make a Mandragora, as powerful as the homunculus (little man in a bottle) so praised by Paracelsus? Then find a root of the plant called bryony. In his work The History and Practice of Magic, Jean-Baptiste Pitois writes: They have long been used in shamanistic rituals, and are still used today in contemporary pagan traditions as Wicca, Odinism and western occultism. A mandrake is the root of a plant, historically derived either from plants of the genus Mandragora found in the Mediterranean region, or from other species, such as Bryonia alba, the English mandrake, which have similar properties.īecause mandrakes contain deliriant hallucinogenic tropane alkaloids and the shape of their roots often resembles human figures, they have been associated with a variety of magical associations throughout history.
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