Rowan berries

The rowan berries (or Mountain Ash) are looking good, I wonder if that means autumn is on its way!

British folklorists of the Victorian era reported the folk belief in apotropaic powers of the rowan tree, in particular in the warding off of witches. Such a report is given by Edwin Lees (1856) for the Wyre Forest in the English West Midlands. Sir James Frazer (1890) reported such a tradition in Scotland, where the tree was often planted near a gate or front door.

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