mandrake

• It was the soundlessness as much as the instantaneousness of such deaths that had led my ancestors to believe that dying while uprooting a mandrake was a good death -- a great mercy, devoutly to be desired by those to whom life had become a burden. —  F ;SF; - vol 099 issue 01 - July 2000
• ;Surprised? I sent to Cathay for the most perfect mandrake, and from it and a drop of your blood I had the foresight to save from our last adventure I had my alchemists grow a homunculus indistinguishable from you in every degree. —  The Warslayer
• I've never really been sure That the mandrake was merely the plant we call by that name? —  Aeon One
• They say that, though so large and powerful, and so courageous against larger animals, it is afraid of a mouse; that its nature is so cold that it will never seek the company of the female until, wandering in the direction of Paradise, it meets with the plant called the mandrake, and eats of it, and that each female bears but one young one in her life Illustration Absurd as we consider such stories, they were believed by the Normans, who were no less credulous than the Anglo-Saxons. —  Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries
• The true mandrake is a gruesome herb, which was held in superstitious awe by the Greeks and the Romans. —  Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure

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