April 03, 2025
PEACH
There is an old tradition that the falling of the leaves of a Peach-tree betoken a murrain.
There is a superstitious belief in Sicily, that anyone afflicted with goître, who on the night of St. John, or of the Ascension, eats a Peach, will be cured, provided only that the Peach-tree dies at the same time; the idea being that the tree, in dying, takes the goître away with it, and so delivers the sufferer from the affliction. In Italy, as a charm to cure warts, Peach-leaves are carefully buried in the earth, so that as they perish the wart may disappear.
To dream of Peaches in season denotes content, health, and pleasure.