These bramble flowers will never come to fruition this late in the season yet the blooms keep on coming perhaps as a gift to the late foraging bees rather than us blackberry pickers. Just as well as UK folklore dictates that the fruit should not be picked after Old Michaelmas Day:-
. It is said that when St. Michael expelled the devil, Lucifer, from heaven, he fell from the skies and landed in a prickly blackberry bush. Satan cursed the fruit, scorched them with his fiery breath, stamped, spat, and urinated on them, so that they would be unfit for eating. As it is considered ill-advised to eat them after 11 October (Old Michaelmas Day according to the Julian Calendar), a Michaelmas pie is made from the last of the season
One for Monochrome Monday
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Nope, me is not gonna think ill of blackberries. Hard enough to ever find really good ripe sweet berries, with or without a myth.
I harvested many sweet ones before the devil’s deadline – now they are soggy, dried up or in an unripe stasis
How interesting! I love old myths.
me too but only just discovered this one so aim to make that pie next year