The Adventure of the Empty House: Tree Worship, G

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Title: Tree Worship
Author: tweedisgood
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Canon Story: The Adventure of the Empty House



From ancient times, men have split branches, left tokens of themselves in the gash and waited to be healed as the tree healed.

I left myself in the gash where water split rocks and sky, not expecting to find healing.

The sacred tree I thought cut down was merely hidden from mortal sight. I had but to wait three years.

Comments

[castiron.livejournal.com]

Oh, nifty! I love the metaphor.

[tweedisgood.livejournal.com]

My meat and drink :-)

Thanks!

[hardboiledbaby]

♥ ♥ ♥

[spacemutineer.livejournal.com]

Mmm. Nicely crafted!

[tweedisgood.livejournal.com]

Bit obscure I know, but what the heck :-)Thanks.

[spacemutineer.livejournal.com]

The obscurity and folk wisdom feel of it is the best part!

[tweedisgood.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[tweedisgood.livejournal.com]

:-) I can't do all that techie stuff... thanks!

[hardboiledbaby]

The hearts? The HTML code for ♥ is:

<font size="+3" color="red">&hearts;</font>

You can change the 3 to make it larger or smaller.

(Not really a techie; I know just enough to be dangerous *g*)

[methylviolet10b]

Fantastic use of the folklore imagery, in a very unexpected and fitting fashion. This is great!

[tweedisgood.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I love a nice bit of mythology.

[chiapetzukamori.livejournal.com]

This is lovely!
The metaphor fascinates me - do you know what this practice is called? Or what culture it is found in? I've never heard of it and I'd like to look it up (google-ing "leaving blood on a tree" and similar didn't turn up much lol)

[tweedisgood.livejournal.com]

Hi, I'm no anthropologist but leaving tokens on or in trees is found in many cultures and is certainly part of British folklore. They wouldn't have left blood so much as items like some of their hair or a piece of cloth which had been in contact with the damaged part or sick person. Basic sympathetic magic, old as time.

Try just 'Tree Worship' and you'll find some info.

[shouldboverthis.livejournal.com]

A beautiful image created here!

[tweedisgood.livejournal.com]

Thank you kindly!