ALRAUNE: The Living Mandrake
1884 • Lady Fortuno's Circus and Cabinet of Curios, Paris
"Roll up roll up ladies and gentlefolk! Come feast your eyes upon our latest otherworldly marvel, the mysteriously magical living mandrake! See her flesh of greenish hue, her legs hardened with encrustations of growth like tree bark and her magnificently long nails - like veritable tree branches ladies and gentlefolk, please step this way (mind your feet please, I believe that the monkeys have been pelting the poor Elephant Boy with peanut shells again!).
See now, reach out and touch her, she is all real, don't be shy now give her a good pinch and prod ladies! Look at those eyes, so transfixing, so strange! Lean in and get a closer look, see the hairs there growing from her skin?
Roll up roll up, come see the living mandrake, scientific marvel and curiosity of the modern age ladies and gentlemen!"
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SIZE: 68cms
ONE OF A KIND.
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Materials: calico, wool stuffing, fabric scraps, wire, thread, paint, beads, ribbon.
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Feb 2024
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"Roll up roll up ladies and gentlefolk! Come feast your eyes upon our latest otherworldly marvel, the mysteriously magical living mandrake! See her flesh of greenish hue, her legs hardened with encrustations of growth like tree bark and her magnificently long nails - like veritable tree branches ladies and gentlefolk, please step this way (mind your feet please, I believe that the monkeys have been pelting the poo... "Pin It")
