Howling Mandrake

The howling mandrake is a large, terrifying plant creature that looks just like the regular mandrake plant. It is said that when the howling mandrake is pulled from the ground, it screams and cries, and anyone who hears it for too long will die. The piercing, blood-curdling screams that can drive those who hear it to madness. The ancient Caluans believed that burning the regular mandrake as incense would bring good fortune or cure sterility. However, the howling mandrake is too dangerous to be used in this way, and it is generally avoided by all except the most desperate or foolish. Due to its size it can move around and attack people, it is considered a dangerous creature. It is around the size of a bear once it unearths itself. In a grove of mandrakes, there is usually only one howling mandrake but it can protect the rest of the regular mandrake plants.