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shy
Crypt Keeper
 
Australia
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 Posted - 13 October 2003 : 10:28:30 PM
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You've heard: " An apple a day keeps the doctor away". Or, that if you peel an apple in one long strip and recite the letters of the alphabet as you do so, the letter you have reached when the peel breaks is the first initial of a future lover ! Or, if you slice an apple in two, without cutting a seed your wish for love will come true.
Shy
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DeadJane
Undertaker
 
USA
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Posted - 21 March 2004 : 9:56:16 PM
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At harvesting time it is considered unlucky to leave one apple on the tree after all other have been picked, it is said that if a single apple remains on the tree untill next spring it is a sign of death is sure to occur
weep no more for me,
my time has passed.
My soul has gone to its final resting place,
For now I am free. |
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Iceheart
Undertaker / Pink Star Lover
Australia
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Posted - 29 September 2004 : 4:40:30 PM
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"An apple a day keeps the doctor away," goes the saying. Who doesn't like
apples? They are delicious, contain potassium, Vitamin A, pectin and unless you
are Snow White and have a wicked stepmother, apples are good for you.
The applefruit has been an important part of the most ancient folk-lore ever
since the Bible told of how Adam and Eve ate from the Tree of Knowledge of Good
and Evil.
In ancient Ireland, it was one of the three things that could only be paid for
by living objects, the others being a hazel bush and a sacred grove. It gew in
the Celtic Paradise. They mysterious land to which King Arthur was taken for the
healing of his wounds was the Vale of Avalon, the Apple vale.
Many omens and charms are associated with apples. A Hallowtide game was for all
the unmarried young people to fasten an apple apiece on a string and twirl it
around before a hot fire. The one whose apple fell off first would be the first
to marry.
If the apple was peeled in one long strip, and the peeling thrown backwards over
the left shoulder, the shape it made showed the initial of the future wife or
husband.
Apple-wassailing (or Apple-howling) was a ceremony of the Christmas season,
performed usually on the Twelfth Night. Everyone went to the Orchard at dusk and
one tree was chosen to represent all. The company drunk to it and threw cider
over its roots. Lots of noise was needed to rouse the sleeping tree-spirit and
drive away the spirits off ill-luck. Songs were sung and all of them started
with "Hail to Thee, old Apple Tree" and kindly ask the tree to bear well and
generously. The orchards are still wassailed in some countries.
Apples have been growing on Earth long before they appeared in the book of
Genesis. Some historians date the cultivation of the apple back to the Stone
Age. That's a million years ago and a lot of applesauce since!
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Heaven bent to take my hand, and lead me thru the fire.
Be the long awaited answer, to a long and painful fight.
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Superstitions about Apples
