Saturday, January 20, 2007
The Truth About Trees… Part 15
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The other magick tree in our forest was named by the ‘Boat-Folk’ who invaded us, after our homeland became an island, due to the rising sea-levels caused the melting Ice-Cap.
That was some time after Atland and Godwinston had sunk beneath the waves of the North Sea, and the Low Waters had been transformed into the English Channel. ( I’m using more modern names here to make it easier to identify the places concerned. )
The ‘Boat-Folk’ were the ‘Civilised’ Iron-Age people, known to science as ‘Proto-Celts.’ These people with their Iron Swords and Knives; brought warfare, death and destruction to our peaceful WildWood.
They were real killers and in their first decade, they massacred over 50% of both our tribe and the other aboriginal tribes who shared our forest. ( I’ll talk more about this later. )
We aboriginals, were all forced to retreat deep into the thickest parts of the forest and keep well away from them, in order to stay alive. From then on we were all exiles and out-laws in our own land; and by their law were could be killed on sight, as they classed us as human-like animals. In fact, this situation continued in the UK, until we got the Bill of Rights in 1951. ( Yes, you’ve guessed it… I was born an ‘Out-Law’ and didn’t go public about my background until 1980. )
Anyway, what I really wanted to tell you was, the ‘Boat-Folk' or Celts as most people now refer to them, had their own word for Magick. That word was Haazel or Häzel, and it is the name they gave to our native Hazel nut-tree. Haselnuss in German and Hazelaar in Dutch.
According to the experts, the Hazel is not a real tree, it is only a shrub, and is left out of many books on trees. How wrong can you get? They also said it didn’t have a trunk, so it couldn’t be a normal tree… How wrong can get?
The Celts, discovered that it is possible to ‘Coppice’ or ‘harvest it’ by cutting the Hazel down to ground level every 7 or so, years; and allowing it to re-grow as a mass of straight posts. These posts could be split and woven into very effective fencing, which was very useful to the Celtic Farmers. Because of this, it is rather difficult to find a Hazel tree with a natural trunk because it hasn’t been coppiced.
Don’t be fooled by the Hazel’s lack of height or a main trunk; it is still a very powerful and important tree in it’s own right, as I’ll tell you later.
Please stay tuned!... Bookmark this site, so that you can find it again!... There is much more to follow….
The other magick tree in our forest was named by the ‘Boat-Folk’ who invaded us, after our homeland became an island, due to the rising sea-levels caused the melting Ice-Cap. That was some time after Atland and Godwinston had sunk beneath the waves of the North Sea, and the Low Waters had been transformed into the English Channel. ( I’m using more modern names here to make it easier to identify the places concerned. )
The ‘Boat-Folk’ were the ‘Civilised’ Iron-Age people, known to science as ‘Proto-Celts.’ These people with their Iron Swords and Knives; brought warfare, death and destruction to our peaceful WildWood.
They were real killers and in their first decade, they massacred over 50% of both our tribe and the other aboriginal tribes who shared our forest. ( I’ll talk more about this later. )
We aboriginals, were all forced to retreat deep into the thickest parts of the forest and keep well away from them, in order to stay alive. From then on we were all exiles and out-laws in our own land; and by their law were could be killed on sight, as they classed us as human-like animals. In fact, this situation continued in the UK, until we got the Bill of Rights in 1951. ( Yes, you’ve guessed it… I was born an ‘Out-Law’ and didn’t go public about my background until 1980. )
Anyway, what I really wanted to tell you was, the ‘Boat-Folk' or Celts as most people now refer to them, had their own word for Magick. That word was Haazel or Häzel, and it is the name they gave to our native Hazel nut-tree. Haselnuss in German and Hazelaar in Dutch.
According to the experts, the Hazel is not a real tree, it is only a shrub, and is left out of many books on trees. How wrong can you get? They also said it didn’t have a trunk, so it couldn’t be a normal tree… How wrong can get?
The Celts, discovered that it is possible to ‘Coppice’ or ‘harvest it’ by cutting the Hazel down to ground level every 7 or so, years; and allowing it to re-grow as a mass of straight posts. These posts could be split and woven into very effective fencing, which was very useful to the Celtic Farmers. Because of this, it is rather difficult to find a Hazel tree with a natural trunk because it hasn’t been coppiced.
Don’t be fooled by the Hazel’s lack of height or a main trunk; it is still a very powerful and important tree in it’s own right, as I’ll tell you later.
Please stay tuned!... Bookmark this site, so that you can find it again!... There is much more to follow….
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