Tree Diddy and Sayings
Tree Diddy and Sayings
In Switzerland, there is a long tradition of men
becoming trees. Men in the village of Le Noirmont dress up as fir trees and run through the village searching for maidens
to "sacrifice." The chosen one has her face painted with soot, and she is then dunked in the village fountain. Then the
treemen transform themselves back into humans until the next year. - Tom Kemmerer
There is no botanical class for the tree of Siberian
legend, which sprang up without branches. God caused nine limbs to shoot from it, and nine men were born at its foot:
fathers of the nine races. Five of the branches, that turned toward the east, furnished fruit for men and beasts, but the
fruits that grew on the four western branches God forbade to men, and he sent a dog and a snake to guard them. While
the snake slept, Erlik, the tempter, climbed into the western branches and persuaded Edji, the woman, to eat the forbidden
fruit. This she shared with her husband, Torongoi, and the pair, realizing their guilt, covered themselves with skins and
hid under the tree. - Charles M. Skinner, Myths and Legends of Flowers, Trees, Fruits and Plants, 1911
Do not be afraid to go out on a limb ... That's
where the fruit is. - Anonymous
A tree falls the way it leans.
Bulgarian Proverb
And this, our life, exempt from public haunt,
finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. - William Shakespeare
A seed hidden in the heart of an apple is an orchard
invisible.
- A Welsh proverb
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man
sees. William Blake, Proverbs of Hell,
1790
The woods are full of faeries! The trees are
all alive;
The river overflows with them, See how they dip and dive!
What funny little fellows! What dainty
little dears!
They dance and leap, and prance and peep, And utter fairy cheers!
- Anonymous
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