Note 165 — MOLY AND MANDRAGORA.

There is no end to Aryan parallels of savage practices. The famous soma of the Veda is apparently now used like the Hottentot roots. By the Zoroastrians ‘it is used at incantations and sacrifices, and thrown into the fire.’ See Mr. Hootum Schindler, Academy, Jan. 31, 1885, p. 83.