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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).
Ashen tree, ashen tree, / Pray buy these warts of me was a rhyme one had to sing whilst sticking a pin first into one's warts and then into the tree. [14] The Wishing Tree or Kissing Tree was made at Christmas or Yuletide before pine trees were introduced by Prince Albert in 1840. An evergreen bough was hung with apples, sweetmeats, and candles ...
Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, OP, also known as Mother Mary Alphonsa (May 20, 1851 – July 9, 1926), was an American Dominican religious sister, writer, social worker, and foundress of the Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne.
Prayers for Sick Family and Friends. 21. "Dear Lord, we come to You today to ask for relief from pain. [Name] is having a hard time and hurting greatly, and we wish to ask for your mercy.
Healing From the Past. Blessed Jesus, in the comfort of your love, I lay before you the memories that haunt me, the anxieties that perplex me, the despair that frightens me, and my frustration at ...
Crataegus (/ k r ə ˈ t iː ɡ ə s /), [2] commonly called hawthorn, quickthorn, [3] thornapple, [4] May-tree, [5] whitethorn, [5] Mayflower or hawberry, is a genus of several hundred species of shrubs and trees in the family Rosaceae, [6] native to temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere in Europe, Asia, North Africa and North America.
Unlike ordinary hawthorn trees, it flowers twice a year (hence the name "biflora"), the first time in winter and the second time in spring. The trees in the Glastonbury area have been propagated by grafting since ancient times. [1] The tree is also widely called the holy thorn, though this term strictly speaking refers to the original ...
Lime tree in culture – uses of the lime (linden) tree by humans; Rose symbolism – a more expansive list of symbolic meanings of the rose; Apple (symbolism) – a more expansive list of symbolic means for apples