The Blood Covenant: A Primitive Rite and its Bearings on Scripture

chapter xviii., sixth section?

[223] Mandrakes, or “love-apples,” among the ancient Egyptians, as also among the Orientals generally, from the days of Jacob (Gen. 30 : 14-17) until to-day, carried the idea of promoting a loving union; and the Egyptian name for mandrakes--_tetmut_--combined the root-word _tet_ already referred to as meaning “arm,” or “bracelet,” and _mut_--with the s...