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So the Arabs call the mandrake, from its shining appearance at night. (Richardson.)
“Those hellish fires that light
The mandrake’s charnel leaves at night.”
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T. Moore: Fire Worshippers.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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