Lady Elder Tree: Northern Animism and Witchcraft candle holder and William Thomas Pavitt (1870-1937)

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Lady Elder Tree: Northern Animism and Witchcraft candle holder and William Thomas Pavitt (1870-1937)by Joseph S. Hopkins & Rune Hjarn Rasmussen SECOND EDITION No other plant is more associated with witchcraft in parts of northern and western Europe than the elder tree (Sambucus nigra). An Old English Christian canon explicitly forbids its veneration while later tales strongly associate the elder with witches and witchcraft. Yet the plant is also personified as a goddess like figure who heals and punishes, the Elder Tree Lady. Appeals to the Elder