Whole Dried European Mandrake Roots - All Have Been Sold. I hope to have more this fall.

Yes, they are breath-takingly expensive, but they are also beautiful and powerful. They embody more than a year of work and a lot of knowledge. I grew these black mandrake roots myself, starting them on Samhain 2008 from my own seeds. I harvested them recently on a Saturday during Saturn's hour to potentiate them further. They have been thoroughly cleaned and dried; the dry weight represents 10% of their original fresh weight. They are in the form that a mandrake mannikin (household/family protector) would have been, ready to be wrapped in silk and kept in a wooden "coffin." The coffin lid often featured a picture of a hanged man or gibbet, due to the association of mandrake with hanged men (which I believe is just another indication of this plant's connection to the Underworld). The coffin was normally kept on the mantel as a family protector, and the mannikin was anointed with a drop of wine about once a year and asked for favors, usually having to do with wealth and fertility. Because these are dried, you cannot grow another plant from them, but with care, they will last pretty much forever. Do not ingest--they are poisonous. Click on the pictures to enlarge them. I might have more roots in fall, depending on how the ones I am growing now do this summer. Prices would be similar.

Whole dried European mandrake root A
$75.00

Whole dried European mandrake root B
$185.00

Whole dried European mandrake root C
$170.00

Whole dried European mandrake root D
$165.00

Grow your own white or black  mandrake root

Uses in Witchcraft & Magick:

Witch's Garden
Baneful Work
Saturn Herb
Divination
Prosperity Spells

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