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The name manchineel (sometimes spelled manchioneel or manchineal), as well as the specific epithet mancinella, are from Spanish manzanilla ('little apple'), from the superficial resemblance of its fruit and leaves to those of an apple tree. It is also called beach apple. [5] A present-day Spanish name is manzanilla de la muerte, 'little apple ...
In a Chippewa tale collected in 1942 from Delia Oshogay, in Court Oreilles, Oshkikwe's Children, Oshkikwe is the youngest sister who marries the king because she promised to give birth to three children: two boys, and the last a girl with golden hair and a star on her forehead. Her two sisters, the elder named Matchikwewis, become jealous and ...
The king overhears their conversation and marries them to their husbands of choice. The two sisters become increasingly jealous of the third one and plot against her. When the new queen gives birth to a girl and two boys (in three consecutive pregnancies), they replace them for a cat, a dog and a bear cub and abandon them in a basket elsewhere.
The children are saved by a couple of elderly farmers. After the farmers die, the three siblings hear about a mountain where they can find a talking bird, a singing tree and a fountain of gold. The two brothers fail and are turned to stone, and their sister obtains the treasures and restores her brothers to life. [40]
El Árbol del Tule (Spanish for The Tree of Tule) is a tree located in the church grounds in the town center of Santa María del Tule in the Mexican state of Oaxaca, approximately 9 km (6 mi) east of the city of Oaxaca on the road to Mitla. It is a Montezuma cypress (Taxodium mucronatum), or ahuehuete (meaning "old man of the water" in Nahuatl).
Tree of life at the Museo de Arte Popular in Mexico City, by Oscar Soteno. A Tree of Life (Spanish: Árbol de la vida) is a type of Mexican pottery sculpture traditional in central Mexico, especially in the municipality of State of Mexico. Originally the sculptures depicted the Biblical story of creation, as an aid for teaching it to natives in ...
The Tió de Nadal (Catalan pronunciation: [tiˈo ðə nəˈðal]; 'Christmas Log'), also known simply as tió ('log'), soca or tronc(a) ('trunk'), is a character in Catalan mythology relating to a Christmas tradition widespread in Catalonia, Majorca (known as Nadaler [1]), Occitania (Southern France) and Andorra.
Previous travelers took narrow trails on horseback or slightly wider tracks on oxcart; it was joked that the road between the two cities was "three miles wide". [23] The highway passed close to El Palo Alto and likely brought it to prominence. [22] The tree was nearly cut down in 1850, but was saved by a timely shipment of lumber. [24]