Is Otik related to the Mandrake root?

The root has been used in magic potions throughout history due to it's hallucinogenic properties. The root can look like a baby & was thought to have grown from semen that leaked from criminals hanged from trees. Apparently men ejaculate when hanged.

Have a look: http://www.shanmonster.com/witch/plants/mandrake.html

Excerpt from link "In Germany, peasants added millet grains for eyes and took great care of their little mandrakes--bathing them, dressing them, tucking them in at night (sometimes in a coffin)--in order to consult them on important questions. In France, they were considered a kind of elf, called the magloire. Often they were stashed in secret cupboards, because possessing one could be dangerous on other counts, too: it could expose the owner to the charge of witchcraft. In 1630, three women in Hamburg were executed on this evidence, and in Orleans in 1603 the wife of a Moor w hanged for harboring a "mandrake-fiend," purportedly in the shape of a female monkey."

So sweetbreads are meat & sweetmeats are pastry? What a world we live in.