Lady Elder Tree: Northern Animism and Witchcraft wooden wand the intuitive mind

the intuitive mind

A UNIQUE & APPROACHABLE EDITION INTENDED FOR EVERYONE

justice and liberation

The book is both a valuable reliquary of practices for the traditional witch

Indigenous-led opposition to the enslavement and exploitation of the land and water

Lady Elder Tree: Northern Animism and Witchcraft wooden wand the intuitive mindby 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