xxxv, 1893.
[185] Ploss and Bartels, _Das Weib_, Chapter XXX.
[186] Thus, in Cornwall, "to be in the longing way" is a popular synonym
for pregnancy.
[187] The apple, wherever it is known, has nearly always been a sacred or
magic fruit (as J.F. Campbell shows, _Popular Tales of West Highlands_,
vol. I, p. lxxv. et seq.), and the fruit of the forbidden tree which
tempted Eve is always popularly imagined to be an apple. One may perhaps
refer in this connection to the fact that at Rome and elsewhere the
testicles have been called apples. I may add that we find a curious proof
of the recognition of the feminine love of apples in an old Portuguese
ballad, "Donna Guimar," in which a damsel puts on armour and goes to the
wars; her sex is suspected and as a test, she is taken into an orchard,
but Donna Guimar is too wary to fall into the trap, and turning away from
the apples plucks a citron.
[188] A. Pinard, Art. "Grossesse," _Dictionnaire Encyclopedique des
Sciences Medicales_, p. 138. On the subject of violent, criminal and
abnormal impulses during pregnancy, see Cumston, "Pregnancy and Crime,"
_American Journal Obstetrics_, December, 1903.
[189] See especially Ploss and Bartels, _Das Weib_, vol.
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