Wishtree book5/7/2023 ![]() ![]() On our woodland properties we could tolerate it as long as it was on a small-scale, but now it seems to have taken off as a ‘fashionable’ thing to do and is out of control.' ![]() In 2019 the National Trust for Scotland said 'For many years people have hammered coins into tree stumps and trunks as some sort of votive offering to make a wish. Folklorist Ceri Houlbrook observed actions at a coin tree in Aira Force, Cumbria, noting that a succession of at least twelve families passed by the site and decided to hammer coins into it using a piece of limestone lying around she commented that this custom appeared to offer "little variation: it is imitative, formulaic, homogeneous". ![]() Coin trees are found in parts of Scotland, Northern England, and Wales. One form of votive offering is the token offering of a coin. ![]()
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