Magickal Trees In Celtic Lore

Birch

Beth

Beginning, encouragement, yuletide.
Sacred to Cerridwen.
The Swedes hang a leafy twig over each door on May Day,
to bless the house.
Russian villagers dress a birch in female clothes &
honour it as a guest for 3 days in the home.
Birch twigs make the spray of a Witch's besom.

Rowen

Luis

Quickbeam, Mountain Ash-
Magick, the quickening of life, and initiation.
Imbolc or Candlemas, "The Feast of the Flame."
Sacred to Brigid, Rowan over the barn door
protects livestock from evil.
Light a candle to the Moon Goddess,
kindle and bless the new fire from which every hearth is lit.

Ash

Nion

Knowledge, rebirth.
Sacred to Gwydion.
The World-Tree, Yggdrasil, of Scandanavian mythology is an ash.
Tree of waters & floods: safeguards against drowning.
In rural Sweden, a "bartrad" or guardian-tree
protects prosperity & health at each farm.
A cleft ash may cure rupture and rickets.

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