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Many types of trees found in the Celtic nations are considered to be sacred, whether as symbols, or due to medicinal properties, or because they are seen as the abode of particular nature spirits. Historically and in folklore, the respect given to trees varies in different parts of the Celtic world.
Diagram comparing the Celtic, astronomical and meteorological calendars. Among the Insular Celts, the year was divided into a light half and a dark half.As the day was seen as beginning at sunset, so the year was seen as beginning with the arrival of the darkness, at Calan Gaeaf / Samhain (around 1 November in the modern calendar). [4]
It has been suggested that the location of the "Salley Gardens" was on the banks of the river at Ballysadare near Sligo where the residents cultivated trees to provide roof thatching materials. [7] [8] "Salley" or "sally" is a form of the Standard English word "sallow", i.e., a willow tree of the genus Salix.
The clootie well near Munlochy, on the Black Isle, Scotland. Clootie tree next to St Brigid's Well, Kildare, Ireland. A clootie well is a holy well (or sacred spring), almost always with a tree growing beside it, where small strips of cloth or ribbons are left as part of a healing ritual, usually by tying them to branches of the tree (called a clootie tree or rag tree).
It is a deciduous shrub or small tree, reaching a height of 8–10 m (26–33 ft), rarely to 13 m.. The leaves are 3–12 cm long and from 2–8 cm wide, broader than most other willows.
Salix eriocephala, known as heart-leaved willow or Missouri River willow, is a species of willow native to a large portion of the temperate United States and Canada. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] It is usually found as a narrow shrub or small tree with multiple trunks growing to a height of 20 ft (6.1 m).
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The tree may be the most representative of Cantabria and has often been planted near buildings. Cantabrian oak forest. Mythology that is connected to the worship of the Mother Earth, is derived from the divinization of animals, trees, mountains and waters as elementary spirits. This was common to the peoples who received Celtic influences.