Note 11 — Chapter XI · Tree-, Herb-, and Stone-lore
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A similar belief was attached to the mandrake. A French story tells of a peasant who regularly “fed” a mandrake that grew below a mistletoe-bearing oak. The mandrake, when fed, would, it was believed, “make you rich by returning twice as much as you spent upon it.… The plant had become an animal.”11