#healing trees

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[trollkatt]

Passing through trees as a magical cure against illness

"Träddragning som magiskt botemedel mot sjukdomar" av Tommy Kuusela, 2024 [X]

från boken Träd i Sverige - Kulturhistoriska och samtida perspektiv

English abstract

Up until the early 20th century, the insuffciencies of medical services left most of the rural population dependent on traditional folk medicine and healing rituals conducted by the cunning folk - older men and women who were specialists in healing and experts of magical charms and rituals. Traditional folk medicine included forms of ritual healing where prayers, charms or spells accompanied rituals as means of treatment. "Passing through" or "passing under" were amongst the most persistent and widespread healing practices to have survived and recorded in the folklore archives. The practice meant that a sick person had to pass through - usually by crawling or being lifted through - a natural or man-made opening in a tree, through rocks or the earth itself, normally at dawn or midnight. Tis article is based on approximately 300 accounts from the Dialect and Folklore Archives in Uppsala describing the method of passing through trees. According to the archival sources, it was a common method for curing rickets, especially in young children, but it could also be used to cure a variety of other illnesses and for protection against sorcery. The article also explores other uses of the ritual of "passing through", and discusses offerings that were left at the healing trees after the ritual had been completed.

trollring från Sandbol - troll ring from Sandbol (ULMA 27140)

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Smöjeka i Dingtuna

from Passing Through as Healing and Crime. An Example from Eighteenth-century Sweden by Fredrik Skott, 2014, published in ARV - Nordic Yearbook of Folklore Vol. 70, Special Issue: Magic and Texts, 2015

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Läkande träd - Magiska seder och folkliga föreställningar om läketräd

I wanted to tag this so you could look up all my other posts about trees in Scandinavian tradition - they’re in English, but the powers that be don’t seem to think finding our own shit on here is important any more. The tags below might or might not take you somewhere. Sorry.

ETA: Found one post. Not sure if this works... [too lazy to type it all down]

#trees in scandinavian folk tradition#scandinavian tradition#illness tree#sjukdomsträd#värkträd#sykdomstre#verktre#toothache tree#tandvärksträd#tannverkstre#vårdträd#tuntre#offering tree#offerträd#offertre#folk magic#folkmagi#folkemagi#curse#nedsättning#nedsetting#trolldom#trolltall#troll pine

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Amla {Phyllanthus emblica}

Also, Known As:

Amla

Indian Gooseberry

Amla (botanical name Phyllanthus Emblica) is an elegant ornamental tree, which usually grows up to a height of 60 feet (18 meters). In some rare cases, the tree may even be 100 feet (30 meters) tall. The bark of amla tree is somewhat smooth and has a light grayish-brown hue. Similar to the bark of guava, amla also peels off its bark in thin flakes. Although…

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Linden

Tilia americana or Tilia Europea or Tilia cordata Also, Known As:

American Basswood

American Linden

Basswood

Bast Tree

Common Lime

Lime blossom

Lime Flowers

Lime Tree

Linden

Linden Flower

Spoonwood

Wycopy

Linden is a tree belonging to different species of the genus Tilia, also known as lime or basswood tree. This herb has been used in European traditional medicine for long to cure an assortment…

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