Sam's perspective
May Blossom freshly opened
Beautiful Hawthorn blossom is filling the hedgerows with it's delicious little blooms...
the hawthorn was one of, if not the, most likely tree to be inhabited or protected by the Wee Folk. so-called 'lone bushes', found in the landscape were said to be inhabited by faeries. Such trees could not be cut down or damaged in any way without incurring the often fatal wrath of their supernatural guardians. The Faery Queen by her hawthorn can also be seen as a representation of an earlier pre-Christian archetype, reminding us of a Goddess-centred worship, practised by priestesses in sacred groves of hawthorn, planted in the round. The site of Westminster Abbey was once called Thorney Island after the sacred stand of thorn trees there.
May Blossom freshly opened
Beautiful Hawthorn blossom is filling the hedgerows with it's delicious little blooms...
the hawthorn was one of, if not the, most likely tree to be inhabited or protected by the Wee Folk. so-called 'lone bushes', found in the landscape were said to be inhabited by faeries. Such trees could not be cut down or damaged in any way without incurring the often fatal wrath of their supernatural guardians. The Faery Queen by her hawthorn can also be seen as a representation of an earlier pre-Christian archetype, reminding us of a Goddess-centred worship, practised by priestesses in sacred groves of hawthorn, planted in the round. The site of Westminster Abbey was once called Thorney Island after the sacred stand of thorn trees there.