The myth of mandagora and alraune is that those sentenced to death by hanging will end up, uh, releasing their last efforts to the earth below, and that creates these plant women.
The myth of mandagora and alraune is that those sentenced to death by hanging will end up, uh, releasing their last efforts to the earth below, and that creates these plant women.
The myth of mandagora and alraune is that those sentenced to death by hanging will end up, uh, releasing their last efforts to the earth below, and that creates these plant women.
The basis of the story of Alraune dates to the Middle Ages in Germany. The humanoid-shaped mandrake root or Mandragora officinarum was widely believed to be produced by the semen of hanged men under the gallows. Alchemists claimed that hanged men ejaculated after their necks were broken and that the earth absorbed their final "strengths".