英语词汇micah rood-s apple的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Micah Rood’s apple. An apple with streaks of red running through the white flesh. The tale is that on a spring day in 1693 a jewelry peddler visited old Micah Rood’s farm at Franklin, Pennsylvania. Shortly afterward the peddler was found mur- dered under an apple tree in Rood’s orchard, but his jewelry was never recovered and the farmer never was convicted of the crime. According to legend, though, all the apples harvested from the tree that autumn had streaks of blood inside. Rood died of fright after seeing them, the “damned” spot or streaks called “Micah Rood’s curse” from that day on. When recount- ing this one, don’t ruin a good story by quibbling that apples with red running through the flesh were common before Rood’s time, that they are simply a “sport,” like the famous golden delicious variety and many others. There seems to be no record of a farmer named Micah Rood, but two other peddlers were involved in sensational murders at the time he was alleg- edly murdered; perhaps these cases inspired the story. See mcintosh.

词汇	micah rood-s apple
词源	Micah Rood’s apple. An apple with streaks of red running through the white flesh. The tale is that on a spring day in 1693 a jewelry peddler visited old Micah Rood’s farm at Franklin, Pennsylvania. Shortly afterward the peddler was found mur- dered under an apple tree in Rood’s orchard, but his jewelry was never recovered and the farmer never was convicted of the crime. According to legend, though, all the apples harvested from the tree that autumn had streaks of blood inside. Rood died of fright after seeing them, the “damned” spot or streaks called “Micah Rood’s curse” from that day on. When recount- ing this one, don’t ruin a good story by quibbling that apples with red running through the flesh were common before Rood’s time, that they are simply a “sport,” like the famous golden delicious variety and many others. There seems to be no record of a farmer named Micah Rood, but two other peddlers were involved in sensational murders at the time he was alleg- edly murdered; perhaps these cases inspired the story. See mcintosh.
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