Apple
The apple denotes rejuvenation, love and hidden wisdom alongside sin, deceit and discord, and splits to reveal a five-pointed star read as a feminine sign.
Our paraphrase of what the sources say it carries.
At a glance
- Type
- Image
- Group
- Plant World / Magical Plants and Flowers
- Borne by
- 1 figure
- Traditions
- Irish folklore (1)
Figures that bear it
A model judged each figure against its own description, one term at a time. Is: the figure is a kind of this thing. Bears: it carries the thing or is marked by it. What a figure does is filed under motifs and powers. Open "why" for the sentence the judgement rests on.
- Fachan bears Irish folklore
why
An Irish manuscript account of the same misshapen kind arms it terribly, with a thick iron flail-club in its skinny hand carrying twenty chains, and fifty apples on every chain, every one of them capable of harm.