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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. This fragrance is released from their bodily fluids, and the fluid is called "Alraune Nectar". It acts as a powerful aphrodisiac and stamina ...
1928: Alraune, also known as Unholy Love, a 125-minute black and white, silent German film directed by Henrik (Heinrich) Galeen. It stars Brigitte Helm as Alraune and Paul Wegener as the scientist Professor Jakob ten Brinken. [4] It uses the novel and is regarded by critics as the definitive version of Alraune. [citation needed]
- Hanns Heinz Ewers
- 1911; 112 years ago
- 1911
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.
Aug 13, 2013 · Alraune by Hanns Ewers is the best known of his horror novels.It’s been filmed several times, two versions which are still available. Alraune is the second of the Frank Braun novels Ewers published, but doesn’t occur chronically between the other two. The events in it seem to suggest it takes place before The Sorcerer’s Apprentice.
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Dec 30, 2014 · Hanns Heinz Ewers. 4.00. 630 ratings76 reviews. The basis of the story of Alraune dates to the Middles 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 ...
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ALRAUNE is a classic of German horror fiction, featuring a supernatural creature created by artificial insemination. The novel explores themes of evil, sexuality, and aberration in a style that combines grotesquerie and decadence.
Alraune, then, is an early 20th century updating of a medieval German legend concerning die Alraune, or the mandrake root: the common belief was that the vaguely humanoid shape of the mandrake root was caused by the ejaculate of hanged men, produced by the breaking of their necks (hence the tendency of "flash" men convicted to the gallows in ...
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