Naughty Eve!

Did you know that nowhere in the Bible does it say that the "forbidden fruit" which Adam and Eve ate, and which resulted in them being expelled from the Garden of Eden, was an apple? Indeed at one point in the Genesis story God tells Adam that he can eat the fruit of any tree which has seeds in it, and apples of course have seeds. So how did it become an apple in common mythology?  Well, probably a translator's error.  The tree is described as being The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil and in Latin, evil is malum and apple is (you've guessed it) also malum.  And there you have it.