This is the procedure for doing what?
Answer: Harvesting the Mandrake root. According to legend, the screams of the Mandrake root could kill the person uprooting it. So an elaborate procedure was devised involving a sacrificial dog. Of course, J. K. Rowling used the more animal-friendly "earmuffs" approach in her books. Dinesh, Ameya, Anon, Adi, Jaggi, and Mekie answered correctly. Well done.
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Biosafety level 4 way of uprooting a mandrake. Legend & Harry Potter have it that the scream of the root is deadly. So, tie a dog to the root and walk away. If the dog hasn't been particularly ill-treated, it will try to follow you, uproot the mandrake, hear the scream and die.
According to the legend, when the root is dug up it screams and kills all who hear it. Literature includes complex directions for harvesting a mandrake root in relative safety. For example Josephus (c. 37 AD Jerusalem – c. 100) gives the following directions for pulling it up:
A furrow must be dug around the root until its lower part is exposed, then a dog is tied to it, after which the person tying the dog must get away. The dog then endeavours to follow him, and so easily pulls up the root, but dies suddenly instead of his master. After this the root can be handled without fear.
Harvesting Mandragora.
Pulling out mandrake root.
Possible connect:
Mandriva Linux (formerly MandrakeSoft) announced recently that it is bankrupt and up for sale.
Harvesting a Mandrake root
Pulling out a mandrake
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