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Perhaps the most famous one is the oak tree near Weimar, Germany, on the Ettersberg, at the foot of which was the castle of Charlotte von Stein. [1] The oak, in the middle of a beech forest, is named thus because it is supposedly the tree under which Goethe wrote "Wanderer's Nightsong", [2] or, alternatively, the location where he composed the Walpurgisnacht passages of his Faust.
The Three Dogs is a German fairy tale. Andrew Lang included it in The Green Fairy Book, listing his source as the Brothers Grimm. A version of this tale appears in A Book of Dragons by Ruth Manning-Sanders. It is Aarne-Thompson type 562, The Spirit in the Blue Light. [1] Other tales of this type include The Blue Light and The Tinderbox. [2]
The present day tree is believed to be a two or three hundred year-old descendant of the original and is thus known as 'Son of Royal Oak'. In 2000, Son of Royal Oak was badly damaged during a violent storm and lost many branches. In September 2010, it was found to have developed large and dangerous cracks.
It featured two trees next to each other and a boy growing up. One tree acted like the one in The Giving Tree, ending up as a stump, while the other tree stopped at giving the boy apples, and does not give the boy its branches or trunk. At the end of the story, the stump was sad that the old man chose to sit under the shade of the other tree.
It was voted 'England's Tree of the Year' in 2014, and came sixth in the European Tree of the Year finals in 2015. [5] [2] The threat to the Major Oak from fracking is the subject of a song by English musician Beans on Toast on his 2017 album Cushty. [12] In July 2020 the tree was reported as vandalised, with a three-foot section of bark fallen ...
The original tree, thought to have started life between the mid-16th and late 18th century, fell in 1942, but a new tree was grown from one of its acorns and planted in the same location. The current tree is sometimes referred to as the Son of the Tree That Owns Itself. Both trees have appeared in numerous national publications, and the site is ...
The Elfin Oak is the stump of a 900-year-old oak tree located in Kensington Gardens, London, carved and painted to look as though elves, gnomes, fairies and small animals are living in its bark. The hollow log, donated by Lady Fortescue, originally came from Richmond Park , and was moved to Kensington Gardens in 1928 as part of George Lansbury ...
W. B. Yeats describes a "holy tree" in his poem "The Two Trees" (1893). In George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series, one of the main religions, that of "the old gods" or "the gods of the North", involves sacred groves of trees ("godswoods") with a white tree with red leaves at the center known as the "heart tree".