A name used to describe the plant mandrake (mandragora officinalis). Upon sudden death at a gallows, a man’s body would relax releasing all of the fluids within him, including semen. It was believed that a mandrake would grow where the semen of a hanged man touched the ground.
Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Pamela Chen and Samantha Blossom, authors of the new The Mandarin Tree.
As modern Asian American mystics, we love to work with the heavenly creatures, or what you may know as mystical beings in...