Mandragora (demon)
{{#invoke:other uses|otheruses}} Template:Multiple issues In European folklore, mandragoras are familiar demons who appear in the figures of little men without beards.<ref name="spence encyclopaedia">Template:Cite book</ref>
Mandragoras are thoughtTemplate:By whom? 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 conceptionTemplate:Weasel inline 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.Template:Citation needed