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 [Hirhurim.blogspot.com] Hirhurim - Musings: Soloveitchik] disagreed strongly with this and stated publicly in a lecture before ordainees that even though the Rema (Even Ha-Ezer 17:2) quotes an opinion from some medieval scholars that the psychological presumption that a woman will not tell a blatant lie in her husband's presence, that is mentioned in the Gemara, changed throughout the generations, and therefore the rules based on this presumption also changed -- and that is what our teacher taught us when we learned Shulhan Arukh, Yoreh De'ah, that there is a possibility that the presumption that a person does not lie about something that will be revealed does not apply today... and therefore it is possible that the rule that one may trust a gentile about something that will be revealed does not apply -- regarding the above presumptions about a woman's psychology that our Sages derived from the verses of Genesis, what is mentioned in the Creation passage teach that God instilled these [presumptions] into Creation and it is part of a woman's inherent nature that will not change.*

 [Uk.answers.yahoo.com] Yahoo! Answers - What does mandrake do in a spell ?: Mandrake is the common name for members of the plant genus Mandragora belonging to the nightshades family (Solanaceae). Their roots, because their curious bifurcations cause them to have a semblance to the human figure (male & female), have long been used in magic rituals, today also in neopagan religions such as Wicca and Germanic revivalism religions such as Odinism.

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