Quotes About Mandrake
You also ought to know that mandrake is a powerful aphrodisiac and is used in love magic, particularly to break down female resistance. That's the explanation of mandrake's folk name: love apple. It's a herb used to pander lovers.' 'Blockhead,' Milva commented. 'And
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
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MARSYAS: Beware! Easily trips the big word dare. Each man's an Å'dipus, that thinks He hath the four powers of the Sphinx, Will, Courage, Knowledge, Silence. Son, Even the adepts scarce win to one! The Thoughts—they fall like rotten fruits. But to destroy the power that makes These thoughts—thy Self? A man it takes To tear his soul up by the roots! This is the mandrake fable, boy!
~ Aleister Crowley
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The slime looked about for Mandrake. If things were bad for me, they weren't too sunny for him either. To my astonishment, I saw him standing at a table with Kitty Jones. It was the Kitty Jones bit that was astonishing, not the table. Though it was very nicely polished.
~ Jonathan Stroud
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The Mandrake is the "Tree of Knowledge" and the burning love ignited by its pleasure is the origin of the human race
~ Hugo Rahner
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Most spells only have power in this life, but a mandrake's born at the same instant a man dies. That means its curse can follow you through the gates of death itself and into the life beyond. I'd not go against it, not for a whole kingdom and and every lusty man in it.
~ Karen Maitland
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