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Witch Tree

On Christmas Eve, 1891, the Sheffield Telegraph reported that, 'The last great gale blew down in the ground of Lightwood, Norton, a tree with a tradition. It is said to have been planted eighty years ago "to keep the witch out of the churn" [possibly connected with the belief that witches could prevent the churning of butter in a household they had "cursed"]... The people there spoke of the tree as the wiggin-tree.' The 'witch-wiggin' tree is another name for the mountain ash or rowan, long believed to have magical properties, including those of protecting innocent folk from black witchcraft. The Vicar of Wortley later added that the tree had been known to his parishioners as the Wickerberry Tree. Lady of Galmis | Witchcraft | Abergeldie Castle | Castle | Eliza | Essex | Lafayette Cemetery | Newark | Pendle | Quarr Abbey | South Yorkshire | Tennessee | The Bull Pub | Two Large Trees | United States | Woodplumpton | Woodplumpton | Yorkshire |