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My Good Babushka

(2,710 posts) Wed Jun 4, 2014, 05:55 AM Jun 2014

The Rowan Tree

Go out on St. Helen's Day (May2) to a rowan tree, a mountain ash, and take a supply of branches. It is important to return home by a different route than that which you used to arrive. A twig of the rowan tree must be stuck in every door on the homestead and never moved. It must fall out of its own accord. This will protect the home against witchcraft.

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The Rowan Tree (Original Post) My Good Babushka Jun 2014 OP

Rowan twig and red thread intaglio Jun 2014 #1

Good find! nt. My Good Babushka Jun 2014 #2

Had a vague memory of this from reading folklore 43 years ago intaglio Jun 2014 #3

But what if one IS a witch? nt LiberalEsto Jun 2014 #4

Then you would probably just skip it. nt. My Good Babushka Jun 2014 #5

Oh, my mistake......I thought this was about Rowan's Farrow's family tree again. a kennedy Jun 2014 #6

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1. Rowan twig and red thread

Reply to My Good Babushka (Original post)

Wed Jun 4, 2014, 07:04 AM

Jun 2014

From "The Silver Bough" via Google Books

Rowan Tree and red thried
Gar the witchers tyne their speed
Old rhyme

Also it was said of Alein Dall (blind Alan)

A tuft of rowan twig
From the face of Ailsa Craig
Put a red thread and knot on it
And place it on the end of a sprinkler
And though the Witch of Endor came
Alan could manage her