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I stumbled upon your channel a few days ago through the Alder tree. You have such a magnificent gift of storytelling, I am absolutely hooked. Please keep the content coming!

I had zero knowledge of the meaning of Rowan or anything about the tree. I had a celestial trip where I saw this red tree, still no clue what it was. Then many years later I was blessed to find out I was having a baby girl. I knew she would be strong like a tree. Then two weeks into the pregnancy I decided her name would be Rowen. I have had some sort of protector keeping me safe through quite a wild life. Almost taking off this plane several times. Then Rowen was born, she has a red birthmark on her head that looks like the leaf. I can’t help but think I was kept safe all these years so she could come into this plane. Truly has me bewildered of how her name came to me, did I mention how big and strong she is.

Just your village witch popping in to say that you can meet Goblins (and other Fea Folks) even without psychoactives - may take a little more practice but it is actually just as wholesome an experience <3 Loved the storytelling, as usual - thank you so much for sharing! Do you have any recs for myths and lore of the North East of England (Co. Durham, Tyneside, Northumberland etc)? I'd love to know more about the tales of the land I live on <3 thank you

“I met goblins” that’s when this video turned into hilarity 😂

No disrespect intended, but im sure Eeyore is my spirit guide.

The Elf shot the food

How to see goblins, step one do hallucinogenic drugs 😂.

Brilliant! Thankyou so much for bringing a bit of realism to you tube these days, keep them Coming.

Thank you for very interesting content on the properties of the alder tree.

I want to be this kind of insane instead of my kind of insane... Seems much more fun.

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BRB sending this to uncle Jöel

Goblin girl ..Frank Zappa...

Do you not think the association with lightning is due to the strongly sympodial branching that results in the English Oak's unique structure?

Clan Johnstone don the Hawthorn upon their Crest.

Watching this 2 miles away from Star Carr,where one of the horned headdresses you showed was found. My mind goes to Slaine the Horned God in 2000AD comics,that I read when I was a kid in the 80s and 90s.

I heard the American indians dried and powdered the berries and mixed them with a form of dessicated meat they made called 'jerky 'This in turn transformed into powder and mixed with the powdered rowan berries ,made (when formed into pills )was carried on journeys as potent sustinance

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As you were telling the story of Iron John, it made me think of John the Baptist, with similar imagery between the two (lived in the wilderness, ate locust and honey, very "feral" in consideration to the other disciples). Then I took it a step further and with the water, crossing over, guide into the otherworld with Cernunnos, we have John the Baptist who baptizes people to wash them clean of their earthliness and bring them into their new spiritual journey with God. Maybe I'm connecting too many dots, but considering Christianity's adaptation of pagan cultures, maybe it's not too far off.

"I've done so many drugs!!!" "Don't do drugs." 😂😂😂

21:10 regardless of what you believe, one thing you have to remember is we do not know everything. There are many mysteries even on our own planet that we have not solved. We've explored less of our oceans than we have of space and space is so vast. We couldn't possibly hope to even have encountered 1% of all of it at this point Not saying you have to believe in everything, but you should keep an open mind that maybe things that were thought myth aren't so mythical. After all. If there's a hundred stories maybe one of them was real

18:05 well, I know exactly what your profession would have been had. You lived in the old days. You would have been a Bard sir, the soul of a storyteller dwells within you

The mythology of the UK and Ireland is so varied and rich, it's very easy to get confused and lost. Since I've discovered the Scary Crow, much much more is making sense to me. Oliver, you're a splendid chap and a rare gem. Your obvious knowledge and skills to present the ancient traditions of these blessed islands are truly unique. Very grateful thanks indeed.

Great work.

i can only find that book (legendary poems from the book of Taliesin by Marged Haycock) for 270 pounds!!!!! why :')

Thank you for a great lesson. Would love to learn more about the significance of trees in traditional Irish culture!

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Great info; great storytelling❤❤

You're a freaking delight! I just found your channel and I'm so glad I did. You're a very engaging entertainer/story teller.

I love the way you put the Ogham letter and the Rune symbol in your tree videos - makes it easier to remember. I struggled to remember all the Oghams during my Druid training. Birch of course has always been easiest to remember because its the first and also because its my name! Diana Birch

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Darlin’ ‘Alder’ is in the 1st Aicme of the Ogham alphabet! ! I think you will find unless you’re in the southern hemisphere then it’s spring equinox… 😢 Elder - Ruis is the ogham is the ogham for the autumn equinox and the last one of the 3rd Aicme. All the other info is brilliantly told within your storytelling. Many Blessings on your story telling 🌲🌳🌲

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Goblins are real

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Goblin Slayer are you listening?

As a woodworker I appreciate this.

American goblin folk can get up to child size. The height of a 9 year old. Not always grotesque. But do have that uncanny valley aspect to them. Humanoid yes. But not human. The shortest I've seen was 18 inches tall. The tallest was about 4'6". (That's in inches.) But it's been years since I've seen any. And all sightings happened in the state of Virginia.

I just came across your page and your amazing story telling. I look forward to hearing more and catching up on videos.

Firstly, although a year on, I'd like to pass my condolences for the loss of your mother, I lost mine 22 years ago now and still feel her presence. My Grandfather was as hed say "born on the hay". His parents travelled the west coast of scotland from near Glasgow to Longtown wintering on the estate at Longtown in Cumbria. When I was born in 1965, my mother told me how he hired a car and took me (and her) and laid me beneath "loads of different bloody trees...him and his Gypsy stuff speaking over me in Romany. I never understood it at all, never knew what trees they were except for the last one as my mother pointed it out one day saying thats the last tree your granddad took you to, it was the actual tree in a local(ish) village graveyard, and it was a Yew tree. Im only 2½ minutes in while writing this as i suddenly realised (possibly) what he was doing, did he take me through the alphabet of trees? He also insisted that I should never be christened or tied to a religion, im the only one younger and older in my family who never was. I have another tree/ woodland experience but this is long enough already.

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I was thinking how apt it was that you are 'crow' - a bird, as you have a Libran sun - ie Air sign, and then I found this story which also shows your deep connection with the winds. I'm also Libran (6 planets in Air) and I've always loved windy weather. I find it comforting. My husband (Earth and Water) - moans constantly if it's even a bit breezy! PS my 'spirit animal' would be a pied wagtail ;o)

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My mother passed away a few years back. She had died in a local nursing home from Alzheimer’s disease and old age. One evening a few days after she passed, my wife and I were sitting on our sofa where we began remembering mom and laughing at some of the funny things she had said and done in life and before the ravages of Alzheimer’s took over her mind. We heard a noise coming from our kitchen. We looked at each other and I called out “mom?” Getting up to look I found an empty water bottle laying on its side on the kitchen counter gently rocking back and forth as it settled from the upright position it had been in to the new position of lying on its side. The cap was screwed on. It’s easy enough to explain that the bottle being empty and the cap on the bottle had allowed the air in the bottle to expand making its bottom rounded and unstable where just the slightest thing might cause it to topple over. For us it was the timing for this to happen just when we were remembering mom and laughing, not in a mean way, at the funny things she sometimes said or did. Was this mom interacting with us using such a normal thing as an empty water bottle?

Wow, I loved that. You really story told it so well you took me on a trip, thank you for your great knowledge and passion for your trees

Over Winter Solstice we have a Festive Twig cut from an Alder not a Christmas tree.

This channel is such an education in folklore. Thanks for your great work.

I live in a place called Aldershot, which used to be the home of the british army (Vanguard of Warriors) also the source of the river Blackwater. Its neighbouring town Farnham (Fearnham) has a 12th century castle built atop an old spring, a well at its centre. Could it be that this ancient magic of rebirth has been weaponised? Just up the road from here is Aldermaston, which is where all our nukes are made.

After you take hallucinogens as far as I have you come to realize that psychedelics are just a different way to be a drug addict