It is said that speaking while passing one will bring bad luck or cause you to grow a monkey's tail.

There is an old Fenland belief that planting a monkey puzzle on the edge of a graveyard would prevent the Devil from entering during a burial. This link with the Devil extends country-wide; many even believing that the Devil lives in the monkey puzzle tree.

It is possible that this story of the Devil living in the tree was invented by concerned parents trying to stop their children climbing the spiky branches.

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