Alraune
Sign in to saveAlraune (German for ) is a novel by German novelist Hanns Heinz Ewers published in 1911. It is also the name of the female lead character. The book originally featured illustrations by Ilna Ewers-Wunderwald.
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It is catalogued under topics including 1910s Gothic novels, 1910s horror novels and 1911 fantasy novels.
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Book · Open Library
- Author
- Hanns Heinz Ewers
- First published
- 1926
- Editions
- 7
- Subjects
- Fiction, Supernatural, Paranormal fiction
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- literary work
- Author
- Hans Evers
- Genre
- science fiction
- Country of origin
- Germany
- Image
- Alraune 2.jpg
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- derivative work
- Alraune
- form of creative work
- novel
- inception
- 1911-00-00
- work available at URL
- www.projekt-gutenberg.org/ewers/alraune/alraune.html
- publication date
- 1911-00-00
- title
- Alraune. Die Geschichte eines lebendigen Wesens
- language of work or name
- German
- copyright status
- public domain
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Encyclopedic overview
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Alraune (German for ) is a novel by German novelist Hanns Heinz Ewers published in 1911. It is also the name of the female lead character. The book originally featured illustrations by Ilna Ewers-Wunderwald.
==Legend== The basis of the story of Alraune dates to the Middle Ages in Germany. The humanoid-shaped mandrake root or Mandragora officinarum was widely believed to be produced by the semen of hanged men under the gallows. Alchemists claimed that hanged men ejaculated after their necks were broken and that the earth absorbed their final "strengths". In some versions, it is blood instead of semen. The root itself was used in love philtres and potions while its fruit was supposed to facilitate pregnancy. Witches who "made love" to the mandrake root were said to produce offspring that had no feelings of real love and had no soul. thumb|alt= Book page with an illustration of a topless person in a cave|Title page of 1929 U.S. edition.
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