In India and Patagonia, the acacia tree is believed to be inhabited by Spirits, and various offerings and sacrifices are made to the tree in exchange for fertility, healing, and protection against evil and misfortune.
Acacia wood is ritually burned on the sacred altars of the Buddhists and used to prepare the sacrificial fires of the Hindus.
In ancient times, the alder was used in idolatrous rites in honor of the goddess Astarte and in divinatory pracitces to diagnose diseases.
According to legend, an alder bleeds, weeps, and begins to speak when it is hewn. AT one time it was against the law in Ireland to chop one down.
The alder is used in folk medicine to treat such ailments as burns, the itch, and rheumatism.
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Planet - Venus Signs - Cancer (Black Alder) and Pisces (Common Alder). Day - Saturday
Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2015 6:50 am
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The apple tree is known in Europe as the "tree of Immortality Through Wisdom," and its fruit has been the subject of countless proverbs and sayings.
According to Irish legends, apple trees (as well as nut trees, oak trees, and the five mystic trees representing the five senses) were believed to be produced by the trefoil (or shamrock) god Trefuilngid Tre-Eochair, who was assimilated to Saint Patrick and also known as the Triple Bearer of the Triple Key (a name which refers to the trident, or triple-phallus, designed to to Fertilize the Triple Goddess).
In many parts of Europe, an apple tree is planted when a baby boy is born, and it is believed that the child will grow or dwindle with the tree. The custom of planting a "birth tree" is also common in West Africa, Papua New Guinea, the southern United States, and parts of Dutch Borneo.
In Iroquois Indian Mythology, the apple tree is the central tree of Heaven.
The wood from the apple tree is made into wands that are used to draw magick circles. The fruit of the tree is used in love-magick, Voodoo love charms, fertility charms, divinations, and immortality spells.
Churchmen of the Middle Ages believed that sorceresses could cause demonic possession by giving poisoned or enchanted apples to their intended victims.
Bobbing for Halloween apples is a remnant of Druidic marriage divination, and it was believed in medieval Europe that a single woman could see the image of her future husband if she peeled an apple before a candle-lit mirror on Halloween night.
The apple is best known as the forbidden fruit eaten by Adam and Eve; however, the fruit of the tree was unidentified in the Bible and the apple was never actually mentioned in conjunction with the Adam and Eve story.
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In Ireland, wands made of ash wood were used by the Druids in their magickal rites. In Scotland, the ash was used to protect children from Sorcery. In England, it was used as a folk remedy to cure warts.
Children were often passed through the branches of an ash tree to be cured of rupture or rickets.
Ash rods were used to magickally cure diseases in farm animals, draw magick circles, and keep serpents at bay.
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Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2015 7:02 am
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The bamboo tree symbolizes friendship in India, and is an emblem of the sacred fire. Its wood is commonly used in the magick rituals of the Melanesian tribes and the Semang of Malaya. In Japan, it is regarded as sacred and is connected with moon-worship and lunar magick.
The Banyan tree is sacred to Indian seers and ascetics and is the Tree of Knowledge in Indian mythology. The Hindu god Vishnu was born under the shade of a banyan, and it was believed that anyone who dared to injure or chop one down would anger the gods and be punished by death.
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Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2015 7:12 am
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The bay tree is regarded as the symbol of resurrection, and is used in healing, divination, and dream-magick. The herbalists of olden times used bay roots to treat ailments of the liver, spleen, and other internal organs. They believed that the tree's berries could counteract the poison of venomous creatures and aid in treating coughs and tuberculosis. The leaves were regarded as highly mystical and were used to protect houses against lightning and thunder, and keep sorcerers and evil demons at bay.
The five-leaved silk-cotton tree known as the ceiba pentandra is the sacred tree in Santeria, and is used in six different ways in santeros (priests of the santeria religion): (1) The leaves are used in all forms of love magick. (2) The roots are used to place offerings and to receive the blood of animals sacrificed to a particular god or goddess. (3) The tree trunk is used in the casting of black magick spells. (4) The bark of the tree is used in brews and potions for medicinal purposes. (5) The soil around the tree is used in black magick sorcery. (6) The shade of the tree attracts spirits and gives its supernatural power to all the spells buried beneath it.
Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2015 7:33 am
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In fourteenth century Japan, a tree-cult existed at Ise, and a cherry tree known as "sakura no miya" was worshipped.
Cherries are used in love spells, aphrodisiacs, and healing magick, while all parts of the tree are used in folk magick to treat such ailments as postnatal and menstrual hemorrhage, asthma, coughs, allergies, and syphilis.
The Coconut tree was sacred in the northern regions of Italy, and its fruit was believed to make barren women fertile. The tree is used mainly in the art of divination, and in western India its fruits and blossoms are thrown into the ocean as an offering to the gods of the sea.
