| Show LEGENDS ABOUT THE POTATO when potatoes were first introduced into russia by a mr rowland tim th exact late date of the introduction of ot tha th tuber into that benighted country beav bein k a subject of controversy but usual ift set down at 1791 the people neither plant nor touch them thein T alma declared them to be the devila and that they were given to big 1318 BB banic majesty on hla his complaint to that he had bad no fruit god told hima him to search the earth for food where upon the poor devil fell to digg digging nga iff 1 the earth and found potatoes growing therein t A similar almicar legend seems to have ob bained credit among the staid B british r ight h erss ers in Berwick shire england Eng laul fiat that shire the introduction of pota potato Is popularly attributed to sir gift michari scott once known all over britti The Wizard of the north according Ac cordin to story michael and the devil formed a and took the lease of a farm on the mertoun estate called tw th whitehouse J michael was to m man age the farm the devil the capital capita th produce was to be divided in the s following manner the 11 first rot year michael was to have oil ab that grew above the ground and li tta devil all that grew beneath the surfaces the second year shares were to bev aided vided in just the opposite way TV aft satanic majesty strange to says say W wl AW badly beaten by the wily michael ft for that personage with bom sight sowed bowed all the land to wheat tit 1 first year and planted it all in the second so the poor devil got bottko A ing but wheat stubble and potato how these absorb legends originate no one seems to know but the J mains that the peasants of both pa buechi and england even to this day fre q U 4 S r ly allude to potatoes kt a |
