Trees : a Woodland Notebook Containing Observations On Certain British And Exotic Trees
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3, is a corrup- tion of " A rountree, witch ! " but the late Professor Skeat sternly refused to entertain that explanation.
Anyhow, so long as belief in witchcraft endured in this country, a branch of rowan was esteemed a sure protection against evil spells. In many a Scottish byre a bunch of rowan may still be seen suspended, and a common feature in cottage garden plots con- sists of a couple of rowan saplings planted before the door, with their tops plaited together to form an arch, so that c...omers and goers shall thereby derive protection against witchcraft by passing under the tutelary boughs.
In Strathspey it used to be the custom to cause all sheep and lambs to pass through a hoop of rowan wood on the 1st of May, and flocks and herds were driven to the summer shieling with a rod of the same wood. In some parts of England the rowan is still called the " witchen." Evelyn wrote of it under FLOWERS OF THE ROWAN {Pyrus aucuparia) The Rowan and its Relatives that name, and said that in his day (1620-1706) the tree was reputed so sacred in Wales " as that there is not a churchyard without one of them planted in it ; so on a certain day in the year everybody reli- giously wears a cross made of the wood." By the by, let no lover of woodland ever speak of a mountain ash when he means a rowan.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
3, is a corrup- tion of " A rountree, witch ! " but the late Professor Skeat sternly refused to entertain that explanation.
Anyhow, so long as belief in witchcraft endured in this country, a branch of rowan was esteemed a sure protection against evil spells. In many a Scottish byre a bunch of rowan may still be seen suspended, and a common feature in cottage garden plots con- sists of a couple of rowan saplings planted before the door, with their tops plaited together to form an arch, so that c...omers and goers shall thereby derive protection against witchcraft by passing under the tutelary boughs.
In Strathspey it used to be the custom to cause all sheep and lambs to pass through a hoop of rowan wood on the 1st of May, and flocks and herds were driven to the summer shieling with a rod of the same wood. In some parts of England the rowan is still called the " witchen." Evelyn wrote of it under FLOWERS OF THE ROWAN {Pyrus aucuparia) The Rowan and its Relatives that name, and said that in his day (1620-1706) the tree was reputed so sacred in Wales " as that there is not a churchyard without one of them planted in it ; so on a certain day in the year everybody reli- giously wears a cross made of the wood." By the by, let no lover of woodland ever speak of a mountain ash when he means a rowan.
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