beans
object · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
the bean · bean-field · pulse
spoken of as
1 expressionthe bean1 mention
De Anima (Latin)
but Pythagoras handed it down to his disciples that one was not even to pass through a bean-field.
in the texts
Stromata
Legume mystically forbidden by the Pythagoreans and explained as causing barrenness.
but rather because beans, when eaten, make women barren.
It is all one to eat beans and the heads of one's parents,
For this reason they mystically forbid the eating of beans—not because the pulse is wind-producing and hard to digest and makes dreams troubled, nor again because the bean is likened to a human head, as in that little verse,
De Anima
Food item forbidden by Pythagoras, contrasted with his claimed past lives who ate beans.
but Pythagoras handed it down to his disciples that one was not even to pass through a bean-field.