Jump to content

Mandragora (demon)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

In European folklore, mandragoras are familiar demons who appear in the figures of little men without beards.[1]

Mandragoras are thought[by whom?] to be little dolls or figures given to sorcerers by the Devil for the purpose of being consulted by them in time of need, and it would seem as if this conception[weasel words] had sprung directly from that of the fetish, which is nothing else than a dwelling-place made by a shaman or medicine-man for the reception of any wandering spirit who chooses to take up his abode therein.[citation needed]

See also

[edit]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ Spence, Lewis (1920). An Encyclopaedia of Occultism. New York City: Dodd, Mead & Company. p. 266. Retrieved 16 September 2019.