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Sodom
Apples of Sodom or mad apples. Strabo, Tacitus, and
Josephus describe them as beautiful externally and filled with ashes.
These “apples” are in reality gall-nuts produced by the insect calledCynips insana.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on Sodom from Infoplease:
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