Mythology
Sacred (as vine) to Dionysus and to
Osiris as a tree of joy, exhiliration and wrath, in celtic countries there is strong taboo against eating the fruit of bramble after
Michaelmas (29 Sept) 'because the devil enters them'. In Brittany reasons given for this are 'because of the fairies', while in Majorca because it was the bush chosen for the
Crown of Thorns, and in Wales simply because of the warning that they became poisonous after this date.