Fantastically Wrong: The Murderous Plant That Grows From the Blood of Hanged Men

The mandrake's roots can look bizarrely like a human body, and legend holds that it can even come in male and female form. It’s said to spring from the dripping fat and blood and semen of a hanged man. Dare pull it the from the earth and it lets out a monstrous scream, bestowing agony and death to all those within earshot.

















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