. Symbolism of animals and birds represented in English church architecture . tiaries have a good deal to sayabout the mandragora, or mandrake, whichthe elephant eats in Paradise. It is a plant,luminous at night, which is shaped just likea human being. When people wish to obtainthe mandrake, they have to be very careful,for it will flee at the sight of an unclean , its head must be touched with the earth is scraped away with anivory staff, until the hands and feet of theplant appear. Next the plant has to be tiedto a dogs neck, and meat is thrown to thedog, in such a way tha
. Symbolism of animals and birds represented in English church architecture . tiaries have a good deal to sayabout the mandragora, or mandrake, whichthe elephant eats in Paradise. It is a plant,luminous at night, which is shaped just likea human being. When people wish to obtainthe mandrake, they have to be very careful,for it will flee at the sight of an unclean , its head must be touched with the earth is scraped away with anivory staff, until the hands and feet of theplant appear. Next the plant has to be tiedto a dogs neck, and meat is thrown to thedog, in such a way that, when he tries tocatch the meat, he must jerk the mandrakeup. The mandrake is really a plant of the samegenus as the belladonna. It has yellow fruitabout the size of a plum, with a peculiarsweet taste. The popular tradition, referredto in the Bible, that the mandrake is anaphrodisiac, still survives in Palestine. Thereis a representation of it on the map of theworld in Hereford Cathedral (as mentionedabove), with the inscription : Mandragoraherba mirabiliter virtuosa. 42.
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