As a bit of a digression, let me mention that my recollection from my childhood in a Baptist church was that the mulberry tree mentioned in the above quote was a "mustard tree" or a "fig tree". Does anybody else recall those types of trees or was that verse always translated as "mulberry tree"?

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Also, I suppose that "blackberries" are different than "mulberries". but I'm a city girl so I don't really know this. The reason why I've brought "blackberries" into this thread is because the reference to "mulberry tree" in that previous post which summarized Luke 17:6 "in which Christ says that with faith deep enough one could tell a mulberry tree to move and it would move" reminded me of these superstitions that I posted on another Mudcat thread:

..."After Michaelmas blackberries were unfit for food because on Michaelmas Day the devil dragged his tail over them"...

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"The real reason why blackberries should not be picked after Old Michaelmas Day, October 11 (Letters, September 7) was that Satan fell from heaven into a blackberry bush, and he spat on it to poison it"

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of course, those superstitions or the fact that the berries are the color "black" may have nothing at all to do with the price of beans in Boston (meaning the topic of this thread). But, hopefully, they "lightened" the "spirit" of the thread just a little bit.