Mandrake is the common name for members of the plant genus Mandragora, particularly the species Mandragora officinarum, belonging to the nightshades family ( Solanaceae ).

The heroine is at several points the catalyst to a powerful orgasm that condemned men are subjected to before they are slaughtered as they climax at the hand of those seeking the Mandragora flower.

* Mandragora is the name of several enemy characters in various of Konami's Castlevania games and also an important item in Castlevania ( Nintendo 64 ).

In some older classifications, the Mandrake ( Mandragora officinarum ) is considered a species of the Atropa genus as Atropa mandragora.

It is a secondary metabolite found in certain plants of the Solanaceae family, including henbane ( Hyoscyamus niger ), mandrake ( Mandragora officinarum ), jimsonweed ( Datura stramonium ), tomato ( Solanum lycopersicum ) and deadly nightshade ( Atropa belladonna ).

Placing under this a crystal glass so that the piece of iron was suspended inside the goblet, the old woman commanded the figure to strike the iron against the glass in such a manner as she wished, saying at the same time to the figure: " I command you, Mandragora, in the name of those to whom you are bound to give obedience, to know if the gentleman present will be happy in the journey which lie is about to make.

She is ranked at the significantly higher Level 404, and her death attack is " Mandragora Buster.

The Masque of Mandragora is the first serial of the 14th season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from 4 September to 25 September 1976.

Hieronymous addresses the Doctor as " Time Lord ", and says that Earth has to be possessed ; if mankind's ambition is not checked, it will eventually spread into the Galaxy and the powers of Mandragora will not allow a rival within their domain.

The BBC Books Past Doctor Adventures novel The Eleventh Tiger by David A. McIntee features an energy helix that is strongly implied to be the same one featured in The Masque of Mandragora.

The book ’ s titular character is an inventor in the primitive and isolated farming village of Mandragora.

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Would you like to make a Mandragora, as powerful as the homunculus ( little man in a bottle ) so praised by Paracelsus?

Alien influences have also, for example, trapped the Doctor's TARDIS and drained its power in " The Web Planet " ( 1965 ) and " Death to the Daleks " ( 1974 ), while its course has been diverted by " The Keeper of Traken " ( 1981 ), the " Mandragora Helix " ( 1976 ) and by the Daleks ' " time corridor " in " Resurrection of the Daleks " ( 1984 ).

Mandragora ( mandrake ) was described by Theophrastus in the fourth century B. C.

* The four episode Doctor Who serial The Masque of Mandragora by Louis Marks, broadcast in September 1976, features a living energy creature called the Mandragora Helix, a fragment of which hitches a lift to earth in the TARDIS and possesses and absorbs an Italian court astrologer towards the eventual aim of galactic domination.

The humanoid-shaped Mandrake root or Mandragora officinarum was widely believed to be produced by the semen of hanged men under the gallows.

# The Three Horsemen of Mandragora-Chuck and Nancy unwittingly release the Three Horsemen of Mandragora upon being tricked by the Sultan.

This concept was first introduced in the Fourth Doctor serial The Masque of Mandragora ( 1976 ), described by the Doctor as a " Time Lord gift " he shares with his companions.

The Mandragora Helix returned once more in the BBC Books New Series Adventures novel Beautiful Chaos by Gary Russell.

She first appeared, with the rank of Captain, in the comic strip story The Mark of Mandragora, published in DWM # 169 -# 172, written by Dan Abnett and drawn by Lee Sullivan and Mark Farmer.

At the same time, the Seventh Doctor and Ace had been drawn to Earth at the close of the 20th century by the alien energy structure known as the Mandragora Helix, which the Doctor had last encountered 500 years before.

The sorceress put several other questions to the Mandragora, who struck the glass once or thrice as seemed good to him.

Mandragora, from Tacuinum Sanitatis ( 1474 ).

* Paolo Eleuteri Serpieri in his erotic novel set Druuna, refers in the fifth book, titled Mandragora, to an antidote extracted from the Mandragora plant.

Examples of this include the 1960 Danger Man episode " View from the Villa " starring Patrick McGoohan, the 1976 four-episode Doctor Who story entitled " The Masque of Mandragora " set in Renaissance Italy, and an episode of Citizen Smith in which the eponymous hero visits Rimini.

The Doctor does some astronomical observations and calculates there will be a lunar eclipse that evening — Mandragora swallowing the Moon — and when the Helix takes over, it will remove all sense of purpose from mankind.

The Doctor explains it as a case of " energy squared ", putting the Mandragora Helix back where it came from.

The Brethren of Demnos summon the Mandragora Helix, from the Doctor Who serial, The Masque of Mandragora.

There are also several recipes for making gold, even from root vegetables such as the Mandragora.

Guts learns from Balzac that the disease comes from an unusual plant, the Mandragora.

Frost next appeared in the Andrew Cartmel-penned Evening's Empire ( Doctor Who Holiday Special 1993 ), where she was now a Colonel ( the result of a field promotion towards the end of Mark of Mandragora ), and investigating the crash of a World War II fighter plane.

The family includes Datura, Mandragora ( mandrake ), Atropa belladonna ( deadly nightshade ), Lycium barbarum ( wolfberry ), Physalis philadelphica ( tomatillo ), Physalis peruviana ( Cape gooseberry flower ), Capsicum ( chili pepper, bell pepper ), Solanum ( potato, tomato, eggplant ), Nicotiana ( tobacco ), and Petunia.

Tropane alkaloids are also found in the Datura, Mandragora, and Brugmansia genera, as well as many others in the Solanaceae family.

" However, the Fourth Doctor era serial The Masque of Mandragora also introduced the idea that the TARDIS has at least one secondary console room, later confirmed in the Eleventh Doctor episode The Doctor's Wife.

For example, the herb which produces the death-like sleep of Juliet or Cymbeline may refer to Nightshade, Mandragora or Doronicum, all of them listed and described in the Herball.

There are many recipes for this ointment all having a base of either Atropa belladonna or Mandragora officinarum, both highly psychoactive drugs producing visions and encouraging astral projection.

* Norman Jones had previously appeared as Khrisong in The Abominable Snowmen and would later play Hieronymous in The Masque of Mandragora.

He also provided voices for the Doctor Who stories The Ark in Space, The Masque of Mandragora and Time and the Rani.

In September 2009 a new line-up was announced: Gwyo ZePix ( ex Zorch and Gong ); Slim Verhoef ( ex Giant Eyes ); Nik Nimbus ); Drumbiz ( ex Mandragora and Giant Eyes ); and Keith the Bass.