tree lore and uses

[viznew]

iv been reading up on trees and found a ton on interesting stuff and here a few ideas i got

Beech is linked with time, wisdom and knowledge but especially written wisdom, as the Beech was used in thin slices to write upon and form the very first books. This is corroborated by the fact that Beeches were called 'Boc' by the Anglo-Saxons, which later became book. Even today the Swedish word 'Bok' means both book and beech and in German 'Buch' means book and 'Buche' means Beech.
beech paper books


Ogham
The Ogham name for Apple is ‘Quert. According to the Word Ogam of Morainn Mac Mon, Quert means ‘Apple is shelter of a hind, lunatics of hinds’. Apple is associated with wholeness (Mountfort, page 99).

According to the Word Ogham of Óengus, Quert is the ‘force of a man’, or the epitome of health and vitality in a man or woman. The apple is located in the heart of the ogham grove, and is the source of life. It is from the apple that we receive healing, renewal, regeneration and wholeness, especially after being wounded, exhausted, or ill (Mountfort, page 100).

the Silver Bough is cut from a magical Apple tree, where silver apple shaped bells played a mystical tune, which could lull people into a trance state
a special quert tree (basicly fancy apple tree) gives normal apples but on occasion gives a silver bough (curio) or a quert (fancy apple) which mabye would lightly heal

Ash
small crosses of ash wood carried upon the person were said to prevent them from drowning whilst at sea
Another use of the tree was for the curing of lameness, swellings in cattle and general pains

less stam while swimming, if given directly to cows increases satiety

birch
In ancient times, brooms made of Birch twigs were commonly used to drive out the spirits of the old year and to ‘beat the bounds’ of property for protection. Thus, broomsticks made of Birch have the added benefit of these protective qualities.

a broom that adds protection to a claim when claim is partically swept the buff is added

oak
Like the ash, it is said to ‘court the lightning flash’; lightning is popularly supposed to strike the oak more than any other tree. Such trees often survived the blow and flourished remarkably well, henceforth being known as ‘lightning oaks’. People often took pieces of these trees to put on their houses for good luck

a regular oak tree sometimes has a rare chance to get struck and chould produce one rare curio

willow
Willow relates to Monday, the activity of bees and is often used as a honey Tree

if around bee skips high q honey

yew
The yew's reputation for long life is due to the unique way in which the tree grows. Its branches grow down into the ground to form new stems, which then rise up around the old central growth as separate but linked trunks. After a time, they cannot be distinguished from the original tree. So the yew has always been a symbol of death and rebirth, the new that springs out of the old

if leave a yew stump it chould re grow

before i get carried away ill end it with that lol
http://www.druidry.org/library/trees

[jorb]

More tree specific nonsense would be fun.