Folklore apples. (tbc)
- The apple of Mortality – Snow White – trickery
- the apple of accuracy – arrow through the apple – striking down the oppressor
- the apple of discord or apple of beauty –
- apple of healing – “Hera owned a wood of precious apple trees given to her by Mother Earth which were tended by the Hesperides, the Daughters of Evening, and guarded by a fierce dragon. The apples growing there were golden and had the power to heal and renew. For his eleventh task, Heracles had to go and get some of these, which involves trekking through Africa to get to the garden, tricking Atlas into doing his dirty work by strangling the dragon, then tricking Atlas into taking the world back on his shoulders and then somehow getting the apples back to base. All in a day’s work of course, but if the apples weren’t so precious and beautiful, would they be anything like as alluring?
- the apple of trickery – apples were used to enchant and distract
- apple of love- Apples crop up a lot in love spells and superstitions – if you manage to get the peel of the apple in one go and then drop it over your shoulder, supposedly it will spell out your future husband’s initial, or if you cut an apple and put a note to the object of your affections within it, your beloved would apparently begin to return your feelings. Is it the shape?
- The apple of gravity: Izzac Newton gravity
- the apple of immortality – keeper of the apples was tempted out of the garden by a woman offering new/different apples. apples symbolise life/fertility.
- Guarding the apples – why are they so precious?
- symbolise something to attain / strive for.
- gold / red
- people of beauty/status keep the apples or tree safe, care for it and protect it.
generally apples have some symbolic meaning and everyone has their own ideas. i dont want to push anyone to directly thing there is one symbolic meaning behind an apple. for me there is not. i want people to think independently and be influenced by their own experiences although they may think about some of these things themselved.
