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A potion made from mature mandrakes can restore victims who have been petrified. A different kind of mandrake is a real plant. Whilst the mandrake as it appears in the books and films is fictional, J. K. Rowling's description does reflect genuinely held beliefs about the mandrake, in particular, the danger surrounding its screams. This led to ...
The Secret Life of Plants (1973) is a book by Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird, which documents controversial experiments that claim to reveal unusual phenomena associated with plants, such as plant sentience and the ability of plants to communicate with other creatures, including humans. The book goes on to discuss philosophies and ...
Front cover art for the book The Day of the Triffids A botanical drawing of a triffid by Bryan Poole for the Science Fiction Classics (1998) The plant can be divided into three components: base, trunk, and head (which contains a venomous sting). Adult triffids are typically 7 feet (2.1 m) in height.
Jason Wynn has appeared as an antagonist in a number of video games based on Spawn including Spawn: Armageddon, [9] Todd McFarlane's Spawn: The Video Game, [10] Spawn: The Eternal [11] and Spawn: In the Demon's Hand. [12] Jason Wynn was mentioned in Mortal Kombat 11. In her dialogue with Spawn, Sonya Blade states to him that Wynn is now an ...
The Water Is Wide is a 1972 memoir [1] by Pat Conroy and is based on his work as a teacher on Daufuskie Island, South Carolina, which is called Yamacraw Island in the book. The book sometimes is identified as nonfiction [2] and other times identified as a novel. [3] Yamacraw is a poor island lacking bridges and having little infrastructure.
The Shape of Water (Italian: La forma dell'acqua) is a 1994 novel by Andrea Camilleri, [1] translated into English in 2002 by Stephen Sartarelli. [ 2 ] It is the first novel of the Inspector Montalbano series .
Myriophyllum verticillatum, the whorl-leaf watermilfoil [4] or whorled water-milfoil, [5] is a native to much of North America, North Africa, and Eurasia.It closely resembles another native milfoil, called northern water milfoil (M. sibiricum) [6] Whorled water milfoil is also easily confused with four types of invasive milfoils: Eurasian water milfoil (M. spicatum), Variable water-milfoil (M ...
Albert Francis "Al" Simmons, better known as Spawn, is a fictional antihero appearing in a monthly comic book of the same name published by American company Image Comics, as well as in a number of films, television series, and video game adaptations set in the Image Universe.