Engraving based on plates 1 and 2 from Augustin Calmet, Dictionnaire historique, critique, chronologique, géographique et littéral de la Bible, 1730.
Featured on PDR in the collection Love Spells and Deadly Shrieks: Illustrations of Mandrakes (ca. 650–1927)
Discussing the mandrake in his Transcendental Magic: Its Doctrine and Ritual (1854), the occultist magician and writer Éliphas Lévi asked: