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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mandragora \Man*drag"o*ra\, n. [L., mandragoras the mandrake.] (Bot.) A genus of plants; the mandrake. See Mandrake, 1.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
see mandrake.
Wiktionary
n. mandrake; often specifically mandrake root, traditionally used as a narcotic
Wikipedia
Mandragora is a 1997 film by Polish director Wiktor Grodecki about the mental and physical decline of a 15-year-old boy who runs away from his seemingly distanced father to Prague, where he becomes a victim of the drug and sex scene.
In myth, mandragoras are familiar demons who appear in the figures of little men without beards.
Mandragoras are thought to be little dolls or figures given to sorcerers by the Devil for the purpose of being consulted by them in time of need; and it would seem as if this conception had sprung directly from that of the fetish, which is nothing else than a dwelling-place made by a shaman or medicine-man for the reception of any wandering spirit who chooses to take up his abode therein.
Mandragora (1991) by David McRobbie (ISBN 0749712651) is a contemporary novel which deals with the sinking of a sailing ship. Dunarling. Adam Hardy and Catriona Chisholm accidentally find a cache of five small dolls made from mandrake roots. The dolls were left in the cave a hundred years earlier by two other teenagers, Jamie and Margaret, who had survived the wreck of the Dunarling.
Transcribing a diary from that same fatal voyage, Adam and Catriona learn of the cursed mandrake roots, whose power destroyed the Dunarling in 1886. It seems the curses are working again in the town of Dunarling today.
Mandragora the Latin equivalent of the English "mandrake" can refer to:
Any of the species of the plant genus Mandragora:
- Mandragora autumnalis, mandrake or autumn mandrake
- Mandragora caulescens, Himalayan mandrake
- Mandragora officinarum, mandrake or Mediterranean mandrake, the type species of the genus
- Mandragora turcomanica, Turkmenian mandrake
A charm made from the roots of various plants called mandrake, including
- Mandragora officinarum
- Mandragora autumnalis (included in Mandragora officinarum by some authorities)
- Bryonia alba, white bryony
Mandragora may also refer to:
- Mandragora, Rolando, an Italian footballer
- Mandragora (novel), a contemporary novel by David McRobbie
- Mandragora (film), a 1997 film by Wiktor Grodecki
- Mandragora (band), a UK psychedelic rock band
- Mandragora (demon), familiar demons who appear in the figures of little men without beards
- Mandragora (publisher), a Polish publisher of comics, manga and manhwa
- Mandragora, a ballet by Karol Szymanowski
- Mandrágora, a Chilean Surrealist group
- The Mandragora Helix, an alien entity featured in the Doctor Who serial The Masque of Mandragora
- Mandragora Movies, a Romanian film production company
Mandragora are a space rock/world dance-music band from Brighton, England, whose formative output can be described as psychedelic rock with ethnic sounds and tribal rhythms. Formed in 1983, the band have released 5 albums of their own, and a collaborative album with Phil Thornton. They built up a loyal following on the free festival circuit of the 1980s and 1990s, and were signed to Delerium Records. In recent years Mandragora have evolved into a world music/electronic dance act featuring singers and musicians from all corners of the globe.
Mandragora is a plant genus belonging to the nightshade family ( Solanaceae). Members of the genus are known as mandrakes. There are between three and five species in the genus. The one or two species found around the Mediterranean constitute the mandrake of ancient writers such as Dioscorides. Two or three further species are found eastwards into China. All are perennial herbaceous plants, with large tap-roots and leaves in the form of a rosette. Individual flowers are bell-shaped, whitish through to violet, and are followed by yellow or orange berries.
Like many members of the Solanaceae, species of Mandragora contain highly biologically active alkaloids, making them poisonous, with a variety of effects, including hallucinations. Their roots in particular have a long use in traditional medicine. Mandrakes are involved in many myths and superstitions.
Usage examples of "mandragora".
At the third hour of the night of the day ruled by Frigg, the Vettir of love, Eir dug the mandragora roots.
The mandragora would keep it at bay for a while, confused and dissipated in sexual frenzy.
Listen, and we three will teach you what you must know to survive the mandragora and the things that will threaten you in the near future.
You shall understand, that when this caytiffe demanded of me a present and strong poyson, considering that it was not my part to give occasion of any others death, but rather to cure and save sicke persons by meane of medicines : and on the other side, fearing least if I should deny his request, I might minister a further cause of his mischiefe, either that he would buy poyson of some other, or else returne and worke his wicked intent, with a sword or some dangerous weapon, I gave him no poyson, but a doling drinke of Mandragora, which is of such force, that it will cause any man to sleepe as though he were dead.
Then I took a drop of every poisonhemlock, wolfsbane, mandragora, cherry seed pulp, brews of berries and bushes and roots, the Death Cap mushroom and the white-spotted red mushroomyes, Gordius, I took them all!
Which somehow, in a way, was what it was: the bag of Mandragora given to him by Old Pete.
I felt the pale fluid in which the mandragora was immersed had become my own blood-tinged urine.
If and when the pain begins, I shall give her bits of the bark of the mandragoras root.
To you I can give the mandragoras bark, to administer should it become necessary.
I shall take this mandragoras to the kitchen and give instructions there.
And every day, too, she required bigger and more frequent doses of mandragoras to keep the pain at bay.
Then I took a drop of every poisonhemlock, wolfsbane, mandragora, cherry seed pulp, brews of berries and bushes and roots, the Death Cap mushroom and the white-spotted red mushroomyes, Gordius, I took them all!
Stephen could not decide, shrugged, lifting his right hand, palm upwards, in a gesture that meant 'Bah, let it go,' and to himself he observed, 'However, I shall oblige him to take a black draught this evening - that at least I can do - and some comfortable mandragora.
In general Stephen Maturin was a poor sleeper, and since his youth he had turned to a number of allies against the intolerable boredom - and sometimes far, far worse than boredom, he having a most vulnerable heart - of insomnia: poppy and mandragora being the most obvious, seconded by the inspissated juice of aconite or of henbane, by datura stramonium, creeping skerit, leopard's bane.
But it is well known that the unions are not above using mandrakes, or mandragoras, as well as facsimiles, when it suits their purpose, such as for pickets, pressure groups, and the like.