According to superstition what happens if you uproot a mandrake plant?
Mandrake of Songs 7:12–13), are: According to the legend, when the root is dug up, it screams and kills all who hear it. Literature includes complex directions for harvesting a mandrake root in relative safety. For example, Josephus ("circa" 37–100 AD) of Jerusalem gives the following directions for pulling it up: Excerpt from Chapter XVI, "Witchcraft and Spells", of "Transcendental Magic: Its Doctrine and Ritual" by nineteenth-century occultist and ceremonial magician Eliphas Levi. The following is taken from Jean-Baptiste Pitois' "The History and Practice of Magic": Mandrake A mandrake is the root of a plant, historically derived either from plants of
What happens on tour, stays on tour the United States and is also known as "what goes on tour stays on tour", "what happens on the road stays on the road", and, among members of the United States military, speaking of temporary duty assignment, "what happens TDY stays TDY". The phrase has been described by Samantha Brett, a writer for "The Age", as an "unspoken male pact that for centuries can never be broken". In essence, if you were there you may discuss the events, but if you were not there, you get nothing. In contrast, "Rugby for Dummies" describes the phrase as meaning that particularly funny,