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Rowan: Mythology, Magic, and Folklore of the Witch Tree (Luis)
Rowan: Mythology, Magic, and Folklore of the Witch Tree (Luis)
Explore the rich mythology, magical applications, and folklore surrounding the Rowan tree, also known as the Witch's Tree, the Quickbeam and the Mountain Ash.
In this video, we’ll delve into the significance of Rowan in the so called Druid or Celtic Tree Alphabet known as Ogham (Luis) and its associations with fire, protection, transformation, vitality and divination in the history of folk magic and hedge witchcraft.
Discover how Rowan is revered in Greek, Irish, and Norse mythology. Learn about its role as a Tree of Life, as well as death and change, its connections to fire, the Sacred Feminine and its powerful symbolism in ancient cultures.
My name is Oliver Lavery and I'm The Story Crow. Join me as we journey through the mystical world of the Quicken Tree and uncover its secrets.
To support me as a folklorist, Mythologist and Storyteller, you can also find me on Patreon:
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Komentáře

  • @joannahart1604
    @joannahart1604 Před hodinou

    Lovely video. My tree the hawthorn June baby!

  • @judithsmorti4306
    @judithsmorti4306 Před hodinou

    🌀✨🪬

  • @colinjohngilbert3994
    @colinjohngilbert3994 Před 4 hodinami

    Your story telling is next level 😂 and the laugh gets me everytime ❤🇮🇪

  • @dot23X
    @dot23X Před 6 hodinami

    Hilariously just when you say at 15:30 “Surtr, he’s of course a…” an ad for Dr Paris chipped in with “chiropractor”! Loki, clearly taking the p!$$ there ;)

  • @dot23X
    @dot23X Před 6 hodinami

    For those comparative storytellers - it also has parallels with the Baba Yaga tale from Russia

  • @naturalwitchery
    @naturalwitchery Před 7 hodinami

    Another great video 🌿

  • @SilvioGrandal-gc8ep
    @SilvioGrandal-gc8ep Před 7 hodinami

    Wow I’ve been waiting for this tree! This is my Celtic tree according to its mythology. Thank you so much for your wisdom and insight my friend! Blessed Be! 🤍🤍🤍✨✨🌳✨

  • @joandrummond524
    @joandrummond524 Před 9 hodinami

    Thank you once again all the way from bonnie Scotland. I love listening to your brilliant videos x

  • @Laura-bb4zn
    @Laura-bb4zn Před 10 hodinami

    Thank you nice story

  • @alisonwedd9750
    @alisonwedd9750 Před 10 hodinami

    I mean look at how much the N Americans had to teach us from the get go! We had no idea how to farm, hunt, herbal medicine(only kind on the table then), etc!

  • @alisonwedd9750
    @alisonwedd9750 Před 10 hodinami

    Also I find my spirit animal changes as I change! One or two stay close by though…

  • @alisonwedd9750
    @alisonwedd9750 Před 10 hodinami

    This judgy opinion/ tendency you’re addressing needs this open discussion as social cleansing!

  • @heatherpadgett2116
    @heatherpadgett2116 Před 11 hodinami

    just dressed a willow this evening...Happy Lammas eve everyone..Hxx

  • @DevinSIDScott
    @DevinSIDScott Před 11 hodinami

    Marvelous video. Very well done.

  • @DemonixGamer
    @DemonixGamer Před 12 hodinami

    Thank you!

  • @bartklip7795
    @bartklip7795 Před 12 hodinami

    love these vids man :)

  • @blazingmytrail1962
    @blazingmytrail1962 Před 13 hodinami

    Always a pleasure to see one of yours uploaded ✨

  • @richardkeep1974
    @richardkeep1974 Před 14 hodinami

    Love this video. Rowan is one of my favourite trees. We had one in the garden in our previous rented house. It was beautiful. I also have a handmade Rowan wand 👍

  • @YoloHumble
    @YoloHumble Před 14 hodinami

    I found your channel a while back and have watched most of your videos. Thanks for the great content!

  • @naturalexplorer
    @naturalexplorer Před 14 hodinami

    Mother's side of the family is surname Rowan. Always found this very interesting as soon as I discovered the very rich mythological mysteries behind the Rowan tree. Still wonder about that pentagram on the berry - Venus comes to mind for some reason. Put one in my front yard. Was the only one I could find in a nursery around here and it was oldish, maybe 2 metres high and rootbound when I got it. Has been stunted in its growth which I have put down to being rootbound when I got it. Grown about a metre at least in 6 years but not filled out yet. Maybe it does not like the more Mediterranean climate of NW Tasmania. Long, dry summer days most likely. Surface alluvial soil before clay loam at about a 1/2 metre deep may have something to do with it. But very highly reliable in going through its yearly cycle and lovely to observe that unfold. Foliage comes out later than pretty much everything else and then the last of deciduous trees to lose its leaves. Makes me feel connected with ancestors particularly with its flowering and berry development. Gives that protective, looked after feel from the encroaching domestication. I like it, and remain confident it will mature well but slowly. Says to the outside world magic lies within - keep your distance - enter at own risk and value nature ☺ Thanks very much for the always excellent and enjoyable mythological overview 🕯

  • @Eriugena8
    @Eriugena8 Před 15 hodinami

    So Rad!! 🔥

  • @MasterPoucksBestMan
    @MasterPoucksBestMan Před 15 hodinami

    I was thinking Loki as well, but how well to rowan and oak grow together? Like that rowan growing out of the dead oak you showed. Maybe that's why Loki is always with Thor, or alternatively why it represents Thor's wife to some.

  • @EbbandFlow1234
    @EbbandFlow1234 Před 16 hodinami

    Thankyou 🌳

  • @dawnlight766
    @dawnlight766 Před 17 hodinami

    I live in County Antrim I also have a Rowan tree in my garden. There is another tree beside it. I think it’s an oak. Could you tell me how I would know if it was? I would be very grateful if you could tell me thank you very much. I love watching you talking about mess and legends and the trees

    • @TheStoryCrow
      @TheStoryCrow Před 16 hodinami

      Well, oak has quite a distinctive leaf shape, with round scallops on it. See my oak tree video for reference! 😉

  • @user-cd5wc3lv8w
    @user-cd5wc3lv8w Před 17 hodinami

    Very informative .. Interesting… Love nature

  • @RodrigoOliveira-gj5ig
    @RodrigoOliveira-gj5ig Před 17 hodinami

    The way you pronouced it (Luis) sounded like Luz, the portuguese word for Light

  • @sweetchariotengland
    @sweetchariotengland Před 17 hodinami

    Just finished a bow and it needs a name. I'm here to be inspired

  • @bealtainecottage
    @bealtainecottage Před 17 hodinami

    Thanks

  • @OwlPowerCreations333
    @OwlPowerCreations333 Před 17 hodinami

    🦉

  • @bealtainecottage
    @bealtainecottage Před 17 hodinami

    Thank you for the wonderful stories and a very happy Lughnasadh my friend

  • @michelewhite36
    @michelewhite36 Před 18 hodinami

    I love your tree profiles. Please keep them coming! I wonder if there is any European folklore about maple trees? Norway maples perhaps? Thank you for all the hard work of researching and writing these fascinating posts. Happy Lughnasadh!!

    • @TheStoryCrow
      @TheStoryCrow Před 18 hodinami

      I’ll keep churning them. Don’t know what I’ll do when I run out of ogham letters 😂 Yes, the field maple, I’m not specifically aware of much folklore around it off the top of my head 🤔 I’ll look into it 🙏☺️

    • @michelewhite36
      @michelewhite36 Před 9 hodinami

      @@TheStoryCrow So many beautiful trees to discover and/or celebrate, never fear. I love how you present the trees always in their natural habitat.:). It’s just beautiful! Thanks so much.

  • @TheStoryCrow
    @TheStoryCrow Před 18 hodinami

    Happy Lughnasadh folks - it’s ROWAN time! Let me know what tree you lot want next To support me as a folklorist, Mythologist and Storyteller, you can also find me on Patreon: patreon.com/TheStoryCrow?

    • @squish1267
      @squish1267 Před 17 hodinami

      @TheStoryCrow Happy Lughnasadh. Have you already done a video on the Yew tree? I'd be very interested in that one.

    • @dismith73
      @dismith73 Před 17 hodinami

      Please will you do Willow next? I love your videos <3

    • @Kim-J312
      @Kim-J312 Před 16 hodinami

      The weeping willow tree 🌳 ❤. I had one in my backyard as a kid, I loved that tree . It was very tall 😊

  • @baseetakarim9476
    @baseetakarim9476 Před 19 hodinami

    I'm not lying ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😅😅😅😅

  • @baseetakarim9476
    @baseetakarim9476 Před 19 hodinami

    My actual name is ostara

  • @colinjohngilbert3994

    How do you know me 😂❤🇮🇪🤘

  • @badcooper235
    @badcooper235 Před dnem

    I am so happy I just found your channel. This is already amazing

    • @TheStoryCrow
      @TheStoryCrow Před 19 hodinami

      Pleased to have ya on board 🙏✨☺️

  • @I_dreamed_my_name_was_Brandon

    St patrick; the ultimate syncretic diety 😂 good stuff brudda

    • @TheStoryCrow
      @TheStoryCrow Před 19 hodinami

      Irelands got a fair few of those bad boys 😆 ☘️

  • @scottingram580
    @scottingram580 Před dnem

    ❤ that cauldron is still on the bubble

  • @oliviag.3059
    @oliviag.3059 Před dnem

    I cannot stop listening to the stories you share here!!! each video teaches me SO MUCH about myself, the world, our ancestors THANK YOU!!!!!! Do any of you feel kindred to a certain tree, animal, fungus etc? i’ve always felt a deep kinship with oaks and squirrels and I love to learn more about their significance and their wisdom

    • @TheStoryCrow
      @TheStoryCrow Před 19 hodinami

      So pleased. Welcome! 🙏✨☺️ Squirrels are interesting. Communication between the world above and the world below. Root and branch. 🌳

  • @ragnarruckus2825
    @ragnarruckus2825 Před 2 dny

    Loki had to take one for the team.

  • @Faesharlyn
    @Faesharlyn Před 2 dny

    I'm going through some stuff and have decided to change my human name.. I was considering Shailleach.. pronunced "shayla" for those who dont speak the language of the gods

  • @alexavatar4427
    @alexavatar4427 Před 2 dny

    Moses is often depicted with horns. Just thought I’d add that 😌

  • @shadoweagle7629
    @shadoweagle7629 Před 2 dny

    From what I have come to understand is Loki is the agent of change. Odin always drinks with Loki because when you drink we change right. Sometimes not for the better. Loki being at the smith is a clear expression of “change”.

    • @TheStoryCrow
      @TheStoryCrow Před dnem

      Very well stated. Tricksters often bring about necessary change. Some resist change.

  • @fifimack7212
    @fifimack7212 Před 2 dny

    Thank you for all of your amazing videos. Thank you for the education into folklore and history. Love your channel and would love to see you on a story telling tour one day ❤Scotland 😊

    • @TheStoryCrow
      @TheStoryCrow Před dnem

      Thanks for the kind words. I’m hoping to find a slot at the Edinburgh storytelling festival this October 🤞🤞🤞

  • @JimCrossan
    @JimCrossan Před 3 dny

    What...?

  • @OzzyDoNot
    @OzzyDoNot Před 3 dny

    gNomE.

  • @scottingram580
    @scottingram580 Před 3 dny

    I recognise them shrooms that have always taken the knowing to the otherworlds

  • @scottingram580
    @scottingram580 Před 4 dny

    Mushroom mead music and joy tis the way to the otherworlds of being a girl or boy

  • @colinjohngilbert3994

    The hole story had me looking sideways 😂 ❤🇮🇪🤘

  • @DooDoo-f4v
    @DooDoo-f4v Před 4 dny

    Given how close his name is to the likes of Licht, Luke, and Logan it makes sense