The Witchcraft Collection Volume Two by Frank Gaynor

Author:Frank Gaynor
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Philosophical Library/Open Road
Published: 2019-04-12T16:00:00+00:00

See DEATH, TIDE.

EDGEWELL OAK

This venerable tree near the castle of Dalhousie, near Edinburgh, has long been linked in superstition with the fate of the family. On seeing a branch fall from the tree on a still day in July, 1874, an old forester ejaculated: “The laird’s deid noo.” A few minutes later came the news that the eleventh Earl of Dalhousie had died.

There is a similar story told of the family of the Earls of Howth. At the family castle in Howth, Ireland, the branches of an ancient tree are propped on supports. Tradition maintains that when the tree falls the direct line of the earldom will become extinct.

A similar tree legend was connected with the House of Hanover, Germany. And in the Forbidden City, at Peking, in a tiny private garden, in which the emperors of the now vanished and fallen Manchus used to take the air, stood in 1901, under so many props that it was hardly distinguishable, the “Life Tree of the Dynasty.” According to Chinese legend the prosperity or fall of the Manchu dynasty went hand-in-hand with the life of the tree. In 1901 the tree was virtually dead; if a prop had been removed from it, it would have fallen down. Twelve years later the dynasty fell. But see how kindred are the tree superstitions in Britain, Ireland, Germany, and China.

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