legends

THE OLD LADY OF THE ELDER TREE

Of all the legends of magical trees England tradition associated with the elder, was the most durable. Elder associated with witches, fairies sometimes and sometimes lived an independent life, as dryads or goddess. Elderberry flowers and fruit used for wine, distilled branches flies, it was thought that the good fairies hiding under the elder from witches and evil spirits. On the other hand, in Oxfordshire and the Midlands there was a belief, though in the elder become witches, and if the branch cut, the tree will bleed. Witch Rollrayt-Stone, according to legend, could take the form of an elder.


Tell many stories of misfortunes that have befallen the people who dared to cut down the sacred thorns. It was believed that some of the trees are inhabited by fairies, and others - the demons, if two thorny bush and elderberry bush grew close to each other, so they lived three evil spirit. The farmer, who tried to cut down a branch of the sacred elder overhanging the Holy Well, the self-fulfilling prophecy on his head. He made three attempts, twice stopped because he felt as if his house burns, but was convinced that it was just an obsession. The third time, he decided not to give in, and cut down a branch ¬ carried it home, but he found his hut on the site of the ashes. This peasant predosterezheniem4 neglected.



Now very few people believe in these stories, but they still prevail among the peasants. Thus, in early XX century could be heard the following story:
Hearing one day that a child in a nearby house was ill, I went to see him. The child seemed healthy, and I said so to his mother, and she quickly explained, "It's because of her husband's, and here's the thing. Rocking the cradle fell off, and he did it better-not figured out how to go cut down a new one from an elder, and the permission of the old women, then who will ask. Of course, she did not like it, she came and pinched Bambino so that mladenchik already flushed from the pain, and that, in vain, that if I threw this rocker, but instead another, from ash to settle down - now just like a child before. " This was something completely new for me, but a clue soon found. On the way back, I looked into the back yard, where chopping wood old Johnny Holmes.

"Prepare the kindling," as he put it. In order not to miss the chance, I picked up a piece of old wood beams and said, "You are not afraid to cut it?" - "No, - he said confidently. - It is no longer alive, but if it grew, I would list the old Gauls not broken, do not ask permission ... "A resolution should ask this:" Old Gaul, give me a tree, and I will give you my, When I grow sprouts from "5.


                          OAKMEN

There are some mentions of oak people in northern England, but the stories about them are few, although there is no doubt that the oak was considered sacred and powerful tree. Widely known for saying "Magic narodec lives in old oak trees." Sacred or royal oak in every any major forest from time immemorial was honored as holy. Oaks, as befitted the trees, in the old days who had divine status, terribly indignant when they cut: oak grove, which grew out of the roots of the felled trees, became after the sun is a dangerous place.


Here's a description of oak narodtsem: This stocky, stunted men with red noses, which are instead red hats caps grebes. They lure people invading their groves, delicious foods, in fact, made from poisonous mushrooms. Oak narodec lives in a magical forest, cut down three times and raised again grove where flower bells. In Cumberland stories "The Fox and the oak man" oak people act as protectors of animals. This story was written with the words of one soldier, who came from the Lake District, and it could be fake. However, it is worthy of attention and is likely to be confirmed by other primerami6



                       LAZY LAURENCE

Lazy Lawrence - the spirit guarding the gardens in Hampshire and Somerset. Perhaps the name was once known more widely, if only the name of the story, Mary Edgeworth "Lazy Lawrence" (which takes place in the village of Aston, near Bristol) is not a coincidence. In Hampshire it sometimes appears as a colt and a filly pursuing thieves-pixie.

In Somerset, he constantly annoys rogues, "cramping, twisting and knocking down," as stated in one of the night plotting (British Museum, MS 36674). There is a saying in Somerset:
Lazy Lawrence, let me go,
Do not keep me either summer or winter.

From this we can conclude that Lazy Lawrence - one of the warning spirits, such as Dick and Melyp Aude Guggi.