I see people are still ignoring my requests not to cc: me answers to the list :)
On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, Henry Ficher wrote: > > > >Mandrake is a name of a magician is some mythologies, > > > You mean Mandrake the Magician, from the Sunday strips of lore? Not > mythological, just a comic strip. :-) nope, I have no idea what strip you are talking about, but I'm sure it's paraphrasing the same source :) I'll try to track it down one day if I have the time. > The plant, also called Mandragora, is not mythical, and it wasn't > poisonous -- just a narcotic, like Belladona. It was used by the > ancients as an anaesthetic, among other medicinal uses. It's > connection with the supernatural was due to it's shape, which > resembled a man, and was the source for popular superstitions since > the time of the Greeks. ok, I take it back, that sounds about right. is "Mandraki Bay" in Rhodes full of Mandrake plants? I donno, I didn't look for them when I had the chance :) -- Urban legend Ira Abramov ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
