Trees and Witchcraft

Trees and Witchcraft

Beliefs concerning trees, their magickal properties and the spirits that are thought to indwell them, are sol old and so widespeard that it is impossible to do more than give a glimpse into tree lore and its connection with witchcraft.

Trees not only have distinct personalities of their own, for those who are sensitive to such things; but many trees are the abodes of spirits, which may be friendly towards humans, or sometimes very much otherwise.

A hunted wood in Sussex, particularly connected with the ghost of a witch, is Tuck's Wood near Buxted. The story behind this haunting is that, many years ago, a beautiful young girl called Nan Tuck somehow acquired the reputation of being a witch. One day an angry mob set about her and threatened to "swim" her in the pond at Tickerage Mill. She fled, with the mob in pursuit, and made for Buxted Church to ask for sanctuary. She manaaged to reach the church, and tried to grasp the 'sanctuary ring' -- the big ring of iron on many old-fashioned church doors -- but the parson pushed her away, quoting the text about "not sufferiing a witch." Presumably, she was abandoned to the mob.

She subsequently hanged herself from a tree in Tuck's Wood, and ever afterwards her ghost has haunted the wood and its neighborhood.

It isn't peculiar that there are many stories of ghostly phenomena connected with woods and with trees in general, when you realize that so old and powerful a living thing as a tree must have a strong aura surrounding it. Some sensitive people can see the auras of trees, as a faint silvery light against the sky.

By leaning your back against a tree, you can attune yourself to its vitality, drawn deep from the earth and nourished by sunshine and rain. Many trees have healing influence upon humans, when their life-force is contacted in this way.

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Arabella

Trees and Witchcraft