Talk:Mandragora (demon)

message: Note: unsigned and undated comments below appear to have been posted by User:81.130.82.52 and User:Texture at various times around 17 Feb 2004.
The SOURCE is Lewis Spence and was published in the 1920 edition of The Encyclopaedia of Occultism. Spence died in 1955! Copyright free under US law?
Certainly NOT!! copyright of http://www.whitedragon.org.uk/articles/mandrake.htm
On checking the article posted is NOT at http://www.whitedragon.org.uk/articles/mandrake.htm
:The web site posted is a match for your article.
Analysis of the two articles:
(Begins half way through the sixteenth paragraph on the website)
Mandragoras: 
"Familiar demons who appear in the figures of little men without beards. "
web site:    
"familiar demons who appear in the figures of little men without beards"
Mandragoras: 
"Delrio states that one day a mandragora (mandrake), entering at the request of a sorcerer, who was being tried before a court for wizardry, was caught by the arms by the judge, who did not believe in the existence of the spirit, to convince himself of its existence, and thrown into the fire, where of course it would escape un-harmed."
web site:    
"Delrio wrote of an instance. He states that one day a mandragora, entering at the request of a sorcerer, who was being tried before a court for wizardry, was caught by the arms by the judge, who did not believe in the existence of the spirit, to convince himself of its existence, and thrown into the fire, where it escaped unharmed."
Mandragoras: 
"Mandragoras are thought to be little dolls or figures given to sorcerers by the Devil for the purpose of being consulted by them in time of need ; and it would seem as if this conception had sprung directly from that of the fetish, which is nothing else than a dwelling-place made by a shaman or medicine-man for the reception of any wandering spirit who chooses to take up his abode therein."
web site:    
"Mandragoras were also thought to be little dolls or figures given to sorcerers by the Devil for the purpose of being consulted by them in time of need; and it would seem as though this conception sprang directly from that of the fetish, nothing else than a dwelling-place made by a shaman or medicine-man for the reception of any wandering spirit therein."
Mandragoras: 
"The author of the work entitled Petit Albert says that on one occasion, whilst travelling in Flanders and passing through the town of Lille, he was invited by one of his friends to accompany him to the house of an old woman who posed as being a great prophetess" EXACT MATCH
web site:    
"The author of the work entitled Petit Albert says that on one occasion, whilst travelling in Flanders and passing through the town of Lille, he was invited by one of his friends to accompany him to the house of an old woman who posed as being a great prophetess." EXACT MATCH
Mandragoras: 
"This aged person conducted the two friends into a dark cabinet lit only by a single lamp, where they could see upon a table covered with a cloth a kind of little statue or mandragora, seated upon a tripod and having the left hand extended and holding a hank of silk very delicately fashioned, from which was suspended a small piece of iron highly polished." EXACT MATCH
web site:    
"This aged person conducted the two friends into a dark cabinet lit only by a single lamp, where they could see upon a table covered with a cloth a kind of little statue or mandragora, seated upon a tripod and having the left hand extended and holding a hank of silk very delicately fashioned, from which was suspended a small piece of iron highly polished." EXACT MATCH
Mandragoras: 
"Placing under this a crystal glass so that the piece of iron was suspended inside the goblet, the old woman commanded the figure to strike the iron against the glass in such a manner as she wished, saying at the same time to the figure : I command you, Mandragora, in the name of those to whom you are bound to give obedience, to know if the gentleman present will be happy in the journey which lie is about to make. If so, strike three times with the iron upon the goblet."  EXACT MATCH - punctuation changed
web site:    
"Placing under this a crystal glass so that the piece of iron was suspended inside the goblet, the old woman commanded the figure to strike the iron against the glass in such a manner as she wished, saying at the same time to the figure: “I command you Mandragora in the name of those to whom you are bound to give obedience, to know if the gentleman present will be happy in the journey which he is about to make. If so, strike three times with the iron upon the goblet”." EXACT MATCH - punctuation changed
Mandragoras: 
"The iron struck three times as demanded without the old woman having touched any of the apparatus, much to the surprise of the two spectators. The sorceress put several other questions to the Mandragora, who struck the glass once or thrice as seemed good to him." EXACT MATCH
web site:    
"The iron struck three times as demanded without the old woman having touched any of the apparatus, much to the surprise of the two spectators. The sorceress put several other questions to the Mandragora, who struck the glass once or thrice as seemed good to him." EXACT MATCH
The last two sentences I did not find but the majority are word-for-word and in the same sentence order as the web site.  In some sentences you moved around a word or two but left it largely verbatum.  
This is a copyright violation - Texture 15:31, 17 Feb 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is this a copyright violation?