Old superstition stated that anyone who pulled out a mandrake root would die. Because of that, people would dig around the mandrake, tie a rope around it, and have a dog pull it out instead. This drawing is a from a copy of Dioscorides' Materia Medica, an herbal written in the first century that was in use through the 1500's.
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