Rowan: Mythology, Magic, and Folklore of the Witch Tree (Luis)
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- Rowan: Mythology, Magic, and Folklore of the Witch Tree (Luis)
Explore the rich mythology, magical applications, and folklore surrounding the Rowan tree, also known as the Witch's Tree, the Quickbeam and the Mountain Ash.
In this video, we’ll delve into the significance of Rowan in the so called Druid or Celtic Tree Alphabet known as Ogham (Luis) and its associations with fire, protection, transformation, vitality and divination in the history of folk magic and hedge witchcraft.
Discover how Rowan is revered in Greek, Irish, and Norse mythology. Learn about its role as a Tree of Life, as well as death and change, its connections to fire, the Sacred Feminine and its powerful symbolism in ancient cultures.
My name is Oliver Lavery and I'm The Story Crow. Join me as we journey through the mystical world of the Quicken Tree and uncover its secrets.
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Happy Lughnasadh folks - it’s ROWAN time!
Let me know what tree you lot want next
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Happy Lughnasadh. Have you already done a video on the Yew tree? I'd be very interested in that one.
Please will you do Willow next? I love your videos
The weeping willow tree 🌳 ❤. I had one in my backyard as a kid, I loved that tree . It was very tall 😊
I'd love to hear about the Elder!
Weeping Willow
Love it, thank you so much! I've always felt a connection to the rowan tree. As a kid I learned a Manx lullaby about birds and rowan trees, and somehow that song never left me. I ended up singing it in the wee hours of many nights when my own kids were babies.
Oh wow, I love an old folky Lullyby. Do send a link if you ever find one. My family were from there once upon a time. Glad you like the vid ☺️🙏✨🌳🔥
How does the lullaby go?
Sing it.
There is also a Scottish folk song, ‘O Rowan Tree’.
Hello. Just discovered you! LOVE LOVE LOVE your channel. I'm a 65 year old woman living in Washington state USA. I was lucky enough to be able to visit your wonderful Island twice and it was such a home coming for me, spiritually. I visited Stonehenge, climbed Glastonbury tor, hugged every big oak I saw LOL and also drove up to Wales to see the place where Patrick McGoohan's The Prisoner was filmed! My four grandparent names are Jessup, Jenkins, Clark and Foster, so you can see I am UK genetics. I think this is why the countryside spoke to me. I did not want to spend anytime in the city LOL, I just spent time out in the countryside.
Anyway, thank you for keeping our ancient ways alive in such a fantastic way. You are a treasure!
So glad, thanks for watching and sharing ☺️🙏✨
Don't worry, I'm sure the witches in your area hold you in high esteem. This witch certainly does. I was drawn to rowan in an interesting way. I bought a rowan cross (from England of course!) to hang on my door for protection. One night, a fire started in the apartment next to mine and I had to leave with what I could grab (my cat). After the firefighters left, I went back to my apartment expecting to find a pile of ashes. Other than some water pooling on the floor, my possessions were intact. I went to my door and there was the rowan cross covered with soot. I still have it.
Now, whoever reads this can draw their own conclusion or call it a coincidence, but in my experience the coincidences keep stacking up. My only regret is that I can't grow a rowan tree in California so I have to settle for the charms. Great video, keep 'em coming.
Wow. Thanks for sharing that.
There’s no such thing as a ‘mere’ co-incidence in my book.
Thanks for watching ✨🙏🌳 🧙
just dressed a willow this evening...Happy Lammas eve everyone..Hxx
Same to you 🌾 🔥🍻✨
@@TheStoryCrow Happy Lammas blessings to you and all..Hxx
Mother's side of the family is surname Rowan. Always found this very interesting as soon as I discovered the very rich mythological mysteries behind the Rowan tree. Still wonder about that pentagram on the berry - Venus comes to mind for some reason. Put one in my front yard. Was the only one I could find in a nursery around here and it was oldish, maybe 2 metres high and rootbound when I got it. Has been stunted in its growth which I have put down to being rootbound when I got it. Grown about a metre at least in 6 years but not filled out yet. Maybe it does not like the more Mediterranean climate of NW Tasmania. Long, dry summer days most likely. Surface alluvial soil before clay loam at about a 1/2 metre deep may have something to do with it. But very highly reliable in going through its yearly cycle and lovely to observe that unfold. Foliage comes out later than pretty much everything else and then the last of deciduous trees to lose its leaves. Makes me feel connected with ancestors particularly with its flowering and berry development. Gives that protective, looked after feel from the encroaching domestication. I like it, and remain confident it will mature well but slowly. Says to the outside world magic lies within - keep your distance - enter at own risk and value nature ☺ Thanks very much for the always excellent and enjoyable mythological overview 🕯
Really excellent comment. Thanks for sharing and well stated re the Rowan; She does speak of the Deep Interior. Interesting the mention of Venus too. It does make sense, symbolically I guess. Red is a lusty colour. The five senses. Desire. Sometimes intuitive associations are the most valuable imo. Hope your Rowan grows slow and strong. Yeah, maybe not so used to the heat, but they’re hardy trees after all. Maybe she is just biding her time ☺️🙏🌳✨
I had a large rowan tree overlooking the conifer hedge beyond my rented home. Found a little sapling growing on my side so I took it and potted it. I was moving out in a few months and liked having a souvenir.
For the first month or two it died off to a twig but then developed a little crown of new growth.
I've now moved and treasure the 18" rowan and am pondering a permanent position to plant it in the back garden.
There's a road nearby called Rowan Way and a large 35' rowan tree which in August was a spectacular tower of red berries, on a grassy area there.
Today I dug a hole in the lawn and planted the little rowan. Feels lovely to have given it a proper place. The symbolism of digging a hole is also interesting.
Did the same with a little walnut tree that's been potted since growing from a squirrel deposited nut 4 years ago.
Just discovered your channel as a keen outdoors person ,I think the knowledge we have is little in comparison on what our Ancestors knew about trees ,tracks and healing .I saw this video about the Rowan tree because me being Scottish Robert Burns write a very good poem about it (in old Scots language) wasn't sure if you heard about this ,Burns often wrote poems that involved traditional ways of the land and people who worked on the land ,before becoming a poet he was. A farmer so he would have knew exactly what you spoke about in this video 100% it is usually sang or played at traditional Scottish music fairs .Thank you for your knowledge on this .
I agree with you re what our ancestors knew, what we know is just scraps now, but you can find lots of clues buried in bits of folklore I believe. Yes, Rabbie was well steeped in the old ways wasn’t he, you can tell! I wish I understood Scots better so I could read him less falteringly. Brilliant writer. Love Scottish trad music too. Thanks for watching 🏴🌳🙏
I love being told about trees by the drifter from waterworld. he was my favourite character.
Planning to plant at least one rowan tree on my property.
There was a rowan tree on the school grounds where I work. I regularly visited it all year and watched such a variety of different birds enjoy it throuout the year. I came to work one day a few months back and it had been removed. I was so upset. The birds loved that tree. I will plant one for them to visit. Love your channel and I'm spreading the word about you in some facebook channels I visit. Keep up the good work!
You won’t regret it I’m sure 🌳 ❤️🙏☺️✨
Really appreciate that you tell us when a story does, and doesn't, have identified sources.
Thanks. It annoys me when people on the internet read something, then repeat it also on the internet like a fact without checking the source!
Love your folktales, outdoor settings and nice dog. Binge watching all dayI don't have Rowan trees in Kansas, but I love learning about ancestral lands and lore.
Glad you like them. Yes might be a bit hot for them there 😅
I only came across your channel recently, and as a UK pagan who's lived in Italy for 20+ years, in the land of catholics (although they are pretty pagan in terms of seasonal festivals...if only they knew), I am loving hearing your bardic approach to folklore and sacred trees. I recently visited friends in the UK and was able to persuade them to go to Glastonbury, and after spending time at the Chalice well, I feel more reconnected to the land, and the energy of Britain. My non pagan Irish husband also listens along... although of course he has differing opinions on a lot of pronunciations!
The Rowan , great info Story Crow.
I have a Rowan that dominates my small front garden. All the properties on the row of semi detached new builds had one. Ours is the last survivor. At 25 yrs old it is a quite a size over 35 ft. tall with quite a girth. It was tipped out a couple of times in its youth to promote spreading so it would have been a lot taller if left to its own devices. Not a week goes by without some tree surgeon or landscape gardener sticking a leaflet through the door asking if we want it felled. That aint going to happen. We will do a bit of judicious pruning this Winter to give ourselves and next door a bit more light. Our neighbour even loves the tree and asked us to leave the branches in place that are inches away from her bedroom windows. Why do we love it, for the birds.
My favorite time Rowan tree watching is late Autumn early Winter when a pair of Mistle Thrushes claim ownership of my tree and berries. Woe betide any Blackbird Robin or Greenfinch that lands in the tree they will be bullied off straight away. If a single Magpie lands it is like MMA and feathers will fly. If a group of Maggie's land the Mizzies sit off and complain till they leave. On returning the Thrushes carefully inspect the tree and count how many their berries have been stolen. Pure soap opera and only inches away from my bedroom window. Every Season the cast of players using the tree changes and there is always something to find pleasure in when observing.
Absolutely love this. Yeah, there was a blackbird in that Rowan tree being very protective of its berries and eying me suspiciously 😂
@@TheStoryCrow Thank You.
You can get your Rowan registered with a little metal plate and a specific number. Its the protected legally. I think its through Woodland Trust but Google it.. Be awful if you moved house and the new owners were not as wonderful as you. Thank you for looking after it.
There is a registry via The Woodland Trust for older trees which offers some protection. Its also possible to have a small metal tag attached so they cannot be legally felled.
Always a pleasure to see one of yours uploaded ✨
Happy to hear that my friend 🙏
For the algorithm I'll blather on about my thoughts on how I named my children without directly naming them all.
Loved the tree and the lore so much, named the first born after it. That and the best Actor and Comedian in the World in my humble opinion, but mainly the first reason.
I wanted a strong name for my first child that could be easily shifted to suit any personality, since a child of any sort could grow up and be or do anything. So the names of all of my children are very changeable and could be strong or soft or have nick names that go either way depending on their stages of life.
Because magically and psychologically names have meaning. I wanted to consider carefully but not pigeonhole them into roles or even strict genders per se. They're going to have red hair, it's unavoidable. But with each child the goal was a well considered name that gave them a sense of place in family, but not a sense of entrapment.
Anyone else like this?
Love it. Obviously a redhead. And an actor. Hail the algorithm!
I am reminded of the song, "The Witch of the Westmerland"
the first verse is
Pale was the wounded knight
That bore the rowan shield
Loud and cruel were the raven’s cries
That feasted on the field
Fantastic. Very interesting. I love Rowan trees. They are abundant in Scotland.
Thank you for this. It's continuity from ancient times that keeps me hopeful.
We have many Rowans around our garden here in North Wales, our cottage is at the base of a small mountain/hill - very rocky covered in heather & bracken some of the trees have red berries and a couple have yellow berries, the Blackbirds love the berries and strip the trees bare, love hearing your stories.
While I was making that video, a blackbird kept sitting on a branch and eyeballing me, protecting her berries 😆 they get quite territorial over rowans. Uncharacteristically untimid. Love blackbirds
Thank you for the wonderful stories and a very happy Lughnasadh my friend
😂 I just wished you the same just before reading this other comment 😂
Same to you and thanks for the tip ☺️🙏🍻
We have the Lammas fair every 2nd weekend of August up in St Andrews in fife, Scotland. Harvest time, i see the connection.
I’ve heard that’s a good one. Will have to take the van up one year 🍻
I came across a bunch of these today, and now your video came up on my feed, crazy...
Second time that has happened with this video, clearly a tree of synchronicity 🌳✨
I've always been drawn to the Rowan but have no idea why. Love this video
Fascinating and what a wonderful story teller you are! Thankyou
Your story telling is next level 😂 and the laugh gets me everytime ❤🇮🇪
😅 can’t help it. Cheers fella, thanks for watching 🙏☺️☘️✨
Thank you once again all the way from bonnie Scotland. I love listening to your brilliant videos x
Thanks for listening, as always ☺️ 🏴
I’ll be up there in October for the storytelling festival in Ed ☺️☺️☺️
@@TheStoryCrowwhen is this
Fab. Thank you. Hawthorn would be a great tree to discuss. X
Here in the Highlands, folk used to protect their homes by having a pair of rowans planted, one on each side of the door to bar entry (through the doorway). You can still sometimes find surviving rowans at the doors of deserted and ruined houses in abandoned fields and steadings.
Very informative ..
Interesting…
Love nature
The berries are a traditional flavouring for ale. I've made ale with it a fair few times - it produces an ale with a delicious, refreshing and dry flavour.
This makes me thirsty
Wow I’ve been waiting for this tree! This is my Celtic tree according to its mythology. Thank you so much for your wisdom and insight my friend! Blessed Be! 🤍🤍🤍✨✨🌳✨
Pleasure, glad you enjoyed it ☺️🙏
I have a rowan growing in a tub. It was grown from seed around ten years ago by students at the school I worked at. It was students for whom the classroom was not suited to their learning needs. I have a birch too but she needs desperately re potting or moving into a garden. Still under debate. And a lilac though I've no idea how she came to me.
Great videos. Will be watching all several times over as a lot to take in.
Thank you for doing these😀
Trees are the best teachers, good on you for doing that. And thanks for watching 🙏☺️🌳✨
I walked by one of these trees a couple days ago and stopped because I was strangely captivated by the aura of it. I put my hand on the tree and it almost felt like I could hear the tree. I thought hmm it seems like there is something to this tree. Now two days latter this random video pops up. Interesting.
That’s quite the synchronicity. Glad you followed through on it. Maybe trees control the internet 🤔😆
@@TheStoryCrow What is your personal favorite video that you have made?
Fionn and the salmon of knowledge
@@TheStoryCrow Awesome, Ill check it out
I have always wanted a Rowan for some reason.. Thank you for the fascinating info. Subscribed.
Thanks for the sub! 🙏🌳✨
Great 😊 informative interesting 🧐 conversation and very helpful - thank you 🙏 ❤🎉
So happy to have stumbled upon your channel. Very interesting and entertaining. Thank you 🙏🏽
A delightful presentation Sire! 🫡
Cheers ☺️
I love your tree profiles. Please keep them coming! I wonder if there is any European folklore about maple trees? Norway maples perhaps? Thank you for all the hard work of researching and writing these fascinating posts. Happy Lughnasadh!!
I’ll keep churning them. Don’t know what I’ll do when I run out of ogham letters 😂
Yes, the field maple, I’m not specifically aware of much folklore around it off the top of my head 🤔 I’ll look into it 🙏☺️
@@TheStoryCrow So many beautiful trees to discover and/or celebrate, never fear. I love how you present the trees always in their natural habitat.:). It’s just beautiful! Thanks so much.
What tree profiles? I can only find 2.
One thing about the berries: they don't fall off the tree as soon as they ripen. They hang on for months, fermenting and becoming quite alcoholic. Could this be one reason for stories about their wonderful, life-enhancing power?
Thank you x
"As red as rowans are" comes to mind. Thanks for the video, i really enjoy all the connections, association and full explanations provided. Im in Australia and i previously found a tree that fits this description, so looking forward to visiting it again now.
I recently discovered your channel and I'm enjoying your content so much! I really hope you cover the Willow soon ✨
love these vids man :)
🙏✨☺️
I found your channel a while back and have watched most of your videos. Thanks for the great content!
Wow. That’s a lot of videos 😅
You’re so welcome. They are of variable quality imo - but hopefully improving 😂 glad they’ve been of some use / entertainment value anyway 🙏☺️
Just found your videos. I I love all trees. I will try not to complain about the Rowan that my car is parked under now lol. My poor car is covered with the berries. Even the engine when I open my bonnet. I’ll remind myself it’s protection. It’s very full of berries this year so the branches are hanging heavy and low
Very interesting video... was out walking today in woods near where I live in Scotland and there must have been about 30 to 40 rowan trees in the area and I asked myself there must be a purpose or a use for all of these berries I'm seeing....lol...and tonight your video popped up on my RUclips feed fantastic I love how the universe answers the question you ask of it ❤ ....there were crab apple trees growing beside some of the rowan trees which I've been eaten the last few times I've been there I'm now going to forage from them both and have myself some jam 😊 thanks for this ❤
Really interesting & the connections 🤟defo a new sub here !
Hey! Welcome aboard. Plenty more tree videos coming. Thanks for the sub 🌳🙏
Love this video. Rowan is one of my favourite trees. We had one in the garden in our previous rented house. It was beautiful. I also have a handmade Rowan wand 👍
There is something about them isn’t there. 🌳 ✨ sounds like a good wand, look after it 😉🔥
@@TheStoryCrow 👍👍👍
Alder please! Apologies if you have already done this - I will look, new to your channel. What fun!
Coming ☺️🌳
Thank you for your work! So fun. I don’t know if you are anywhere near each other, but I need a crossover episode where you and Tony Walker from the Classic Ghost Stories podcast take a long walk in the countryside and teach us stuff 😍
I don’t know that one!
@@TheStoryCrow oops I had a horrible typo 😵💫 I meant Tony Walker! He had a great channel here on RUclips (very different focus) but in his “rantings” at the end he always shares a good deal that makes me feel like a crossover would be fun!
I’ll check him out, thanks for the recommendation ☺️🙏
In Tolkiens 2nd book of the trilogy we are introduced to Ents the Shepard's of the trees . one of the ents was found of Rowan trees and I often wondered what they were. Here in the states there is no such tree. thank you for clarifying that.❤❤❤
Ah, I had forgotten that bit. Love tolkiens ents.
I’m surprised there are no rowans on the eastern seaboard of the USA up north somewhere 🤔
Thankyou 🌳
Thank you so much!!! This is amazing that I came across you. I've been walking past the rowan tree and always bless it. I've had my fair share of nasty energy thrown my way so this is so great to know ❤
Just found ypu, love the stories and information thank you. Just struggled with a clicking noise, i thought it was the posca pen i was using to begin with lol. But as you say, you will be getting some new equipment. I will go look at your other videos, love the information you share, thanks once again.
It’s because I keep slapping my lapel mic when I wave my arms about like a lunatic 😂
Ps. Love a posca pen ☺️
Another great video 🌿
I just came across your profile. I'm Norwegian, and we have a lot of Rowan trees where I live in Middel-Norway. Both at home and at our summer house, and old farm at an island at the coast of Norway. Our home is the last house in the street, so we live next to the forrest. Loved to hear all about the myths and stories of the rowan tree.
I imagine the climate is perfect for them there 🌳✨
The street where I live has a Rowan planted each side of the entrance to keep evil away, not sure it works all the time as I still get bills posted. Like the gathering of tales about the Rowan. I am Lammas born and make a fine loaf in my wood fired stove, but not this month. Subbed and will g through your mix. Cheers
Can we have Horse Chestnut next please? We have lots of Rowans in South Wales and there is a place in the South Wales Valleys called Mountain Ash. Really enjoyed the video, thank you.
Well, I have a soft spot for the horse chestnut, but I’ll do all the native British and Irish trees in the ogham first I think.
Then horse chestnut ☺️
If you slice an apple horizontally, the cross section will reveal a pentacle similar to the one on Rowan berries. The pentacle shape represents the orbital course of the planet Venus in relation to Earth and so both Trees are governed by Venus/Aphrodite. Good watch and subbed
Yes it’s a very marked pentacle in the apple isn’t it. Connection with Venus makes sense with both trees in terms of folklore and myth too. Even if in a roundabout way.
Thanks for the sub ☺️🙏
Awesome! You are very knowledgeable and have a great way of telling and explaining everything, thank you!
The way you pronouced it (Luis) sounded like Luz, the portuguese word for Light
Probably etymologically connected I’d guess 🔥✨
I was going to say the same
Very nice. My family and I have the surname Rowan tree or Rountree in our family tree. They were part of the North Carolina settlers from Ireland. 🇮🇪 I have studied the non Christian part of our family heritage for the last few years because of our other indigenous roots and beliefs from another side of our family. Thank you for sharing.
Really Great! Rowan is a part of my myth. Must be a past life memory. Namaste
thank you
Just finished a bow and it needs a name.
I'm here to be inspired
Awesome. What did you land on?
Please make more bow making vids 😂
@@TheStoryCrow ergh I'm still not sure. It's got a mahogany and white oak handle and it's decorated with birch bark.
Any thoughts?
Rowan. Cool name imho
I’ve recently been reminded of the name of Gawain’s horse in the green knight, it’s ‘Gringolet’ or ‘Le Gringolet’ - that’s quite a fun bow name…
@@TheStoryCrow keep em coming.
The bow I was trying to name is now called Maiden
Gringolet? Is that pronounced lay?
Another enjoyable entertaining and educational video 👍namaste
All the elders in my Anglo family had a high regard for the Rowan tree. Thank you for telling me why.
I love the Rowan tree,. ❤
Just signed up on patreon. I wish I could do the higher amount, but I'm a retiree on a very fixed income. Love your work. Thank you for being!
No problem at all, every little helps I really appreciate it- thank you 🙏☺️✨
Thanks for this. Yeah the birds love em don’t they. Especially the blackbirds. Little scamps. Such a gift to to look after a Rowan grove - go well with it 🙏✨🌳
Delightful spending time here today.
❤❤❤
Dermott... I am a McDermott, daughter of Kings of Connaught.
A huge Happy Shazam with my wand! 🎉🎉🎉
Shazzzzzaaam! ✨
BEAITIFUL ❤❤❤
Fascinating. Well presented.
Even in Finland we have mythology of rowan.
Just found you, much appreciated, love to all, many blessings
Welcome 🙏
Thank you for another superb and spine tingling talk.
Have you covered the Aspen Tree?
Not yet! It’s not in the tree ogham so it may be a little down the list 😆
Lovely trees though. I’ll get to it eventually 😂
@@TheStoryCrow thank you 👍
Hi there, great channel, I would like to hear about Birch & Willow as it's the only native tree & shrub in Iceland & coz the flora has alot in common with Ireland, so yeah. Cheers
Ahhh, willow on its way. Yeah, not loads of trees on your island eh? I hear it’s beautiful though. Must visit 🇮🇸☺️
@@TheStoryCrow About 1,5% trees🤭estimated 45% trees during settlement, it was warmer then, experts estimate that the birch was even higher than 10meters. The willow is really underestimated, it really pops up our limited flora color palette exspecially Woolly willow. I'm a tour guide in Iceland & being a great storyteller is key, I want to avoid as much as possible to delivere dry info, so thank for responding to my request , looking forward to & cheers
Love from Ireland. Your home looks beautiful!
Right back atchya across a small sea ☘️❤️✨☺️
Came across your channel and wow you are so passionate I could watch you forever
Thank you from a Devon pagan
Mandy 🌟
Cheers Mandy, from a Wiltshire moonraker 😉✨
I was thinking Loki as well, but how well to rowan and oak grow together? Like that rowan growing out of the dead oak you showed. Maybe that's why Loki is always with Thor, or alternatively why it represents Thor's wife to some.
I thought exactly the same - well stated 😉✨🙏🌳
I don’t see them growing side by side that often, in my experience; but an oak is easily the best candidate for a flying Rowan because of the cradle like shape between the boughs 🌳☺️
So Rad!! 🔥
🤟🌳✨🙏
I live in County Antrim I also have a Rowan tree in my garden. There is another tree beside it. I think it’s an oak. Could you tell me how I would know if it was? I would be very grateful if you could tell me thank you very much. I love watching you talking about mess and legends and the trees
Well, oak has quite a distinctive leaf shape, with round scallops on it. See my oak tree video for reference! 😉
This is so great. Thank you.
Also, I have heard discussions of the Rowan being the green dragon that protects Yggdrasil in Norse oral traditions.
That’s interesting 🤔
❤Thank you our property is surrounded by Rowan trees, in Blaine, Washington USA. I am stringing Rowan Berries.
Thanks
Hey, thank you and a great Lughnasadh to you! 🔥 🌾✨☺️🍻🙏
Botha fantastic video and tree! Isn’t the seal of Solomon the six pointed star? (which corresponds to the triple tau)
Confusingly the name is given to both 😂
I have two Rowan , a Hawthorne and a crab apple tree in my garden.
Love this!!!!
Twenty beautiful minutes - many thanks !
I once heard "rowan berries and red thread, stop a witch in her stead"
I heard that one too! Stop me from what, I'm not sure. But I've heard the rhyme.
I dont think so. 😊
Thank you kindly for your Channel ❤❤❤❤❤
You are so welcome
That dead oak tree looks like the one in Minas Tirith
IT SO DOES
The Rowan is also used in the folk tale of the Laidley Wyrm to defend the hero against dark magic...
Consulting a wizard, the locals feed the dragon seven cows per day until they contact Childe Wynd. With 33 of this best men, Wynd vows to rescue his sister and punish the evil queen, sailing home on a boat of rowan wood. The queen sends her henchman to sabotage the voyage, but they find that magic has no affect on rowan wood.
It is! Should have mentioned that really
Great video. I plan to have one in my garden!
By the way I just posted a short on my channel of the oldest Linden tree in the Baltics.
I'll check it out! Like me a linden tree
Rowan is also used to protect the hero Childe Wynd in the tale of the Laidley Wyrm.
Yup. Wish I’d mentioned that in retrospect as it’s very apt
Thanks!
Thank you🙏☺️✨
Quick question to whomever: Story Crow mentioned the Glastonbury thorn being cut down. A couple times. He mentioned militant Christians. I liked what his Budha friend said about not letting hate "win". I couldn't find anything on line about who actually did the destruction. Was it ever determined? And is the new thorn actually in a cage? Thank you.
During the civil war it was a puritan in Cromwell army, so very a literally very militant Christian. The modern time was suspected strongly to be evangelicals Christian’s, but could have been mindless vandals. The last and final time was the new landowner.
I think the new cutting is in a secret place 😂
Criafol in Welsh (kree avol)
omg you r cool :) :)
Rowan tree perfume smells fab. Have you done willow yet?
Not yet, but it is coming ✨🌳
How do make Rowan tree perfume?