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Table 7 G: G1. Relation to historical and mythological characters: King Solomon, Circe, and Prometheus; G2. Elephant

From: In search of traces of the mandrake myth: the historical, and ethnobotanical roots of its vernacular names

Language

Name

Ethnic transcription

Meaning

Selected references

G1

Arabic

[šajarat Suleimān]

شجرة سلیمان

[“(King) Solomon’s tree”]

[99]

Armenian

[Sołomon-

imastunicaṙ]

[“Solomon’s tree”] literally

[198: 97] (15th c.); [100: 106]; [101: 152]

English

Herb of Circe

  

[199: 224]; [29, II: 336]; [109: 70]

English

Herb of Prometheus

  

[200: 496]; [201: 121]

French

circée

 

[“Circe”]

[29: 336]

German

prometheuskraut

 

[“Prometheus herb]

[31: 42]

German

zauberpflanze der circe

 

[“Circe’s magic plant]

[28: 71]; [31: 42]

Greek

kirkéa

Speliing variants: kirkéon,

dirkéa

Κιρκαῖον / Κιρκαῖα / Διρκαῖα

[“Circe”]

[45: IV,75]

G2

English

Elephant ear

 

See text

[202: 249]