BLACKBERRY SUPERSTITIONS
A recently published book mentions as a Devonshire superstition that blackberries should not be eaten after Alichaelmas Day because the devil will have set his cloven foot upon them, and suggests as an explanation that overripe blackberries produce colic. This '.misses the whole point of the superstition, which is by no means confined to Devonshire. It is because blackberries !in England never ripen probably after Michaelmas and have a sub-acid flavour even when they look ripe that, they artcredited with having been blighted by the deviir-
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21763, 31 March 1934, Page 6 (Supplement)
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88BLACKBERRY SUPERSTITIONS New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21763, 31 March 1934, Page 6 (Supplement)
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