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Alraune (German for Mandrake) is a novel by German novelist Hanns Heinz Ewers published in 1911. It is also the name of the female lead character. [1] The book originally featured illustrations by Ilna Ewers-Wunderwald.
- Hanns Heinz Ewers
- 1911
Apr 30, 2023 · A plant type monster with the form of a beautiful woman covered in enormous flower petals that inhabits forests. Normally they don't move around very much. They're always releasing sweet fragrances that attract human men, and they wait for their prey.
Alraune is a humanoid-shaped mandrake root that is said to have magical and seductive powers. Learn about its origins, characteristics, and representation in arts, from medieval paintings to modern media.
Dec 30, 2014 · The novel deviates from the myth by concentrating on the issues of artificial insemination and genetics versus environment. A scientist, Professor Jakob ten Brinken, interested in the laws of heredity, impregnates a prostitute in a laboratory with the semen of a hanged murderer.
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- Hardcover
- Hanns Heinz Ewers
The child, Alraune, grows into an extremely beautiful but thoroughly perverse young woman with a mysterious power to subject others and to bring riches...
Feb 3, 2015 · Alraune is a novel about a mysterious child born from a forbidden union and her connection to the occult. Read the sixth chapter of the book, where the professor observes her strange immunity to stinging nettles and primroses.
44. Illustrated English translation of Hanns Heinz Ewers' decadent novel, Alraune, the second volume in his Frank Braun trilogy: The Sorcerer's Apprentice, Alraune, and Vampire. Inspired by medieval beliefs in the occult properties of the mandrake root (alraune), which was thought to grow under.
