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Love Spells and Deadly Shrieks: Illustrations of Mandrakes (Ca. 650–1927)


More than 70 images of the magical, hallucinogenic, and perilous mandrake.

[O]fft vnd vil habe ich by mir selbst betracht die wu[n]dersam werck des schepfers der natuer..., 9412223 (National Library of Medicine), 1485, p. 415. [O]fft vnd vil habe ich by mir selbst betracht die wu[n]dersam werck des schepfers der natuer..., 9412223 (National Library of Medicine), 1485, p. 417. William Blake, “I found him beneath a Tree”, Plate 3 from The Gates of Paradise(Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection), 1826.

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