THE FOLKLORE OF THE OAK TREE. Acorns, Galls, Superstitions, Oak Apple Day, Oak King and Holly King
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- EDIT TO ADD..... A CORRECTION ... JANE GRAY WAS A RIVAL FOR THE THONE OF MARY NOT ELIZABETH, THANKS FOR THE HEADS UP FROM MY LISTENER :)
Welcome to another episode of tree folklore and this time we have the mighty OAK, a tree that is the symbol of steadfastness and security. This is also a tree associated with royalty, both in the human world and the folkloric world. It is one of the most recognised trees around the world, and one of the most loved. I hope you enjoy this episode as we learn about the Oak's importance for ancient cultures through to the modern day.
(This episode is dedicated to Andy, Nicola and their family and friends. The Oak.... eternally a symbol of strength and power. Love always surrounds)
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0:00 introduction
0:36 A brief history of the Oak
5:02 Druids, Celts and Green Men of the great ancient forest
8:13 The Mistletoe and the Druids
11:10 The Greeks and the Oracle Oaks
11:36 The Irish tale of the bringing of the sacred trees and Cuchullain
15:20 The Norse tale of Barnskottr
19:57 The Romans, the Greeks their visions and festivals
22:04 Christianity and the Gospel Oaks
25:42 The tree of kings, Scottish clans, Oak Apple Day and May Day
28:49 Folklore, spells, faith and Ogham
35:22 Oak wood in the home, protection, shipbuilding and gallows
40:54 Fairies and witches, true tales and superstitions
50:42 Sir George Bernard Shaw poem 'Oak Tree'
52:02 Closing thoughts
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also images & video from Pixabay & Wikimedia Commons
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Folklorists: J Frazer, R Vickery, H Fife, R Mabey, N Chadwick, Ruth Tongue, A Porteous, EM Leather, K Briggs, JF Campbell, Y Aburrow, C Oakley, E And J Lehner, P Heselton, J Gifford, Harrington, Marc Potts
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Music Credits :
Frost Waltz by Kevin Macleod
how lovely to hear a real narrator and not those a.i tin can voices , thank you . Made me feel like a kid again being read to , such a treat , hello from Cornwall, UK 😊
Glad you enjoyed it over there in beautiful Kernow! I know what you mean about AI voices.... I was watching a vid the other day about the golden age of Hollywood and one home they were showing footage of was that of Liberace.... but pronounced as though rhyming with 'lace'... and I just couldn't get past that. Which is a shame because the older content on the channel wasn't AI narrated and had so much more character
My forebears came from Cornwall to Nelson in NewZealand on the Bolton in 1842. In 1985 my husband planted 160 Scarlet Oaks down our drive, they were already a year old, now they are about 60 feet tall, trees grow fast here. They make a red rustling tunnel in the Autumn. A great investment.
In my hometown, every east/west street is named after a tree. I grew up as the last generation of "feral" children, running the woods during the day, only returning home at sunset. I felt as if the trees were watching over me and I would make stories of their lives and all the things they may have seen in their stoic state. Still as an adult, I feel most grounded in the woods. Oak trees feel commanding and wise, anchors of the forests. This is such a lovely video! Thank you ♡
We have some beautiful old oaks in the Southern California Mountains. We almost bought a home in the foothills with an oak that covered the whole backyard. That beauty shaded the whole house. It was 104 degrees outside the day we looked at the house. But, in the backyard under the shade of the old tree, it was 75 degrees. Boy, I would have loved that house just for that tree!
Yes
I too grew up like the OP. What a wonderful thing it was! It's so sad that that isn't possible now, although most of what we hear is American news, not Canadian.
I had some magical times that I remember so clearly, just wandering around, and if I needed a washroom where there was none, we just knocked on any door. I met a wonderful couple that way, and I always went back to visit them afterwards. I couldn't have been any older than 7 at the time. The only time I was ever scared was when I was acosted by a slightly older boy, but he didn't actually hurt me.
We had trees, many fields, lots of bush, and a golf course nearby. We had picnics on the greens, and were never bothered by anyone. There was also a community centre with a day program, and in winter they had a canteen, washrooms, hockey rinks, a free skating area, cross country skiing, and a huge sliding hill. The parents in the area took turns taking care of it, cleaning bathrooms, manning the canteen, and maintaining the ice rinks. What a wonderful place to be a child!
The houses were right within a park called Wildwood Park, with 3 playgrounds in it. It's still a wonderful area in Winnipeg Manitoba, and if I still lived in Winnipeg I would want my kids to grow up there too, although I'd keep a much closer eye on them, and go exploring with them in the semi wild places that still exist there, including an area of bush called The Witchy Path. My cousin's adult son lives there now with his family. I have such wonderful memories of that place!
The trees are still the most memorable part of it. Most are elms, and they have been a bit affected by Dutch Elm Disease. We always shaved a ring of the surface bark around them about 5 inches wide, and applied a sticky substance called Tanglefoot to them, to prevent the disease. Elms were planted everywhere in the cities of Eastern Canada, because they were considerred the most beautiful, but sadly that gave the bugs that attack elms a monoculture to thrive in. They were also periodically attacked by Forest Tent Caterpillars, and other pests, but because home owners and the city were vigilant, they are still thriving now, 50 years later. There are oaks too, and several other types, and it's still just an amazing place! The beauty of the trees is stunning.
My siblings and I were "feral" as well - and I think we were truly blessed to have experienced that kind of childhood - and fortunate to have had the kind of parents that encouraged it.
We were so blessed by it, weren't we? In my case, it'd be my dad hollering my name. Visiting the grands farm I'd wander the countryside with Grampa's gelding pony, who figured he was supposed to keep me safe (He had a healthy respect for Grampa, who once threw a yearling bull over a gate, I SAW it), and also coerce me into visiting places I would never have found myself Ah.... the oaks were kind and the beeches fine, but the willows would switch you; Walnut trees would laugh if you stumbled on their seeds. I didn't see it that way then, but hey. Be well.
There is an old oak in our local arboretum that housed a honeybee hive for a few years. It was a magical experience to pass by the Bee Oak and hear the humming within it.
Oh my word, how magical! :)
The oldest ones are the hollow ones. It's a naturaly stronger shape as the roots retreat...the tree goes into it's final hollow phase.
How sweet! (no pun intended) Happy bees hum and their hum is healing.
Plant more oaks, folks ✨🧙🏾♂️✨
I saw a bluey-green translucent orb float into a gap at the base of an old oak tree in my local woods. A magical experience so grateful to witness. Beautiful storytelling, thanks x
Depending on how it felt or what you think it was, you may consider submitting your sighting to the Fairy Investigation Society's Fairy Census, which can be found via a quick Google search.
I watched the same thing happen in my room from dying plant to one still thriving. Very lucky to see such a beauty
Trees are portals for bigfoots
Beautiful... and I second adding it to Simon Young's Fairy Census, he has a few of our sightings recorded in there too :)
I have a Tree Branch in my living room behind my couch that curves over the end of it into the air, I sleep on the couch often, I got it from off my porch after a storm from my maple 🍁 it reaches all out and around. I had my friend hold open the door, grabbed the branch and made a wild 😜 dash into the house 🏡 with it last year when it had no leaves. I didn't break too many branches till I accidentally hit 😢😮😅 my ceiling fan 😔😩😯 but most are okay. Anyways, last week I noticed there was a green 💚 orb light on my ceiling right above the branch above where I lay my head down to sleep. It was about three inches across. I sit here and watched it for about a minute and it started to shrink and fade away. Very Interesting 🤔🧐👀 to witness. ❤😊
I spent hrs as a child collecting dropped acorns. Trying to find the largest one. Oak trees are definitely magical
I love everything. The subject, the music and your voice. Beautiful visuals
Thank you so much :)
I live in a home that sits with 3 small oak groves that are arranged around it, as if each grove were a tip of a triangle with the house in the center of it.
One tip is to the NW, & the nearest of the two tips that are closest to each other is to the SE, with the last tip of the triangle being directly South of the house.
When I was little, I'd play for hours in the grove to the NW, as if I were one of Peter Pan's lost boys (no matter that I wasn't a boy, I didn't care). My favorite tree was one that looked like 3 trees that had fused at the bottom. I could walk up into the area where their trunks grew together like a platform. A fourth trunk had long ago been cut down by someone & served as an ideal spot for me to sit as I hid my little treasures in a hole that had formed directly to the right of my stump seat within the large fused trunk.
I also loved collecting the rusty red, dusty dark yellow, & brown speckled galls.
Did you know that the galls can be used to make ink? 😊
Lovely and delightful ❤
A mystical place it seems !
Beautiful.... thank you so much for sharing. I will try the gall ink, see if I can collect some and make some for Marc to use in his art. We made Walnut ink last year and that worked so well :)
@@talesoffeyandfolkanother fun ink is from the berries of poke weed. (Phytolacca decandra)
My daughters and I made paper infused with seeds, and pokeweed ink, after they got done playing I planted them in the garden. It was a fun project.
Where I live now, there is a huge oak tree in my front yard. I get to see the cycle of life of the tree every year. And where I grew up in the Appalachian mountain area of America, there was a small community called OakGrove . This area has places that have never been logged,a primal forest.
And this area was settled by Irish, Scot and Welsh peoples.
A little bit of the Celtic folk in beautiful ancient Appalachia! Honestly the more I read about Appalachia the more fascinated I get, even listening to the podcast Old Gods of Appalachia... just blissful and intriguing!
I once heard one of my elders say
"By Oak and root"
Or
"By OAKEN ROOT"
(NOPE, NO CLUE WHAT IT MEANT)
I'm 54 now, noonle left alive to ask
(Along with what sounds like "BEWOTH GRENDIG ADONAI")
I'm a ward.of.the state, or was.
These memories.are.OLD😊
Guud luck😊
Thank you for this, I'm going to see if I can find anything about this saying :)
When asked what my spirit animal is ... I always answer "An Oak tree".
From little acorns mighty oaks grow.
Always loved this saying :)
I plant acorns every year grow them and pass them on to farmers with lots of land Magical Trees
@@philodowd8080 I love that. We need people like you. Trees help us breathe. Once upon a time this country was mostly forest but we cleared it. nice to know you are doing your bit to tip the scale the other way.
It's cool to think that your little trees could be around for half a century after we are all dead and buried.
I have lots of large oak trees in the woods behind my house. I check it in the fall to see how big the acorns are , I"ve always heard; the bigger they are the worse of a winter we will have. I love them! I have woodpeckers and squirrels in them. Also a nesting pair of hawks! I have lots of fairy grass around them too. Round circles of very soft grass, I like to put my feet on them.
I love the oak tree. I collect acorn shaped house wares. There is an oak tree in my back yard. I have books on the druids.
@vixendor6943
Which books do you have?
@@didibellini I will send you a list soon
@@didibellini Ceremonies Of the Seasons by Jennifer Cole. The Book of Druidry by Kristoffer Hughes. Ogam: The Celtic Oracle of the Trees by Paul Rhys Mountfort. By Oak, Ash and Thorn by D.J Conway
@@vixendoe6943
Thank you.
@@didibellini you are welcome
There was in our village a beautiful oak. As I child, I would watch the light of the setting sun color its leaves and bark as the breeze wafted through the branches. I was totally at peace.
Very healing, tree healing is so very peaceful :)
Love your folklore videos, some people just dont understand how important they really are...
That is one of the main reasons I started the channel, to try and keep it all alive and spread the word :)
Oaks are so special and bueatiful
I see more oak trees in video games than in the wilds where I live. The Ceder is the sacred tree here. It's nice to hear stories of other sacred trees and see that a love of trees is universal.
I think that love is growing as well. Here in this part of Spain it's the Chestnut instead of the Oak that is the BIG tree in the landscape
Oak trees are protected here in the Central Valley of California.
Tie a yellow ribbon round the old oak tree.
I love this! Oak trees in my backyard were my friends as I was growing up. I also love the etymology of the words.
That was the best thing I have listened to in a long time. May the oak bless you.
And may the Oak bless you too :)
I am so pleased to have found this beautiful narration. Have learnt so much. I appreciate all the research you have done to produce this.
Thank you for your kind words :)
Very beautiful and magickal
Our farm has a long drive which is an avenue of scarlet Oaks. I love them, its like a red tunnel in autmn.
Oh wow... you are so blessed!
"Wit" is also the root for "witch". The witch often had knowledge that others did not, and even though she used her knowledge to Heal others and deliver babies, she was often feared and persecuted for having the knowledge that others didn't.
The house I rent was made from red oak, when the shingles were replaced you could see the beautiful red oak roof and in the basement the floor jousts are large red oak . I've rented this house for 33 yrs.
Wow how beautiful. Our last house in England was very old and the whole frame was English Oak, including the main fireplace lintel.... so old and so rich in colour. Here where we live now in Spain it's the Chestnut that is the main traditional building wood for the structures. I think there is something very special about living in a house built with natural materials , something quite magical :)
Simple beautiful, thank you. I wish I could post the little oak tree that I have planted last year from an acorn 🤎
That was very pleasantly narrated, and filled with information about all things oak. Thank you very much!!!
I love Oak tree's two year's ago i picked up 2 acorns that had fallen off a beautiful young oak tree which was planted to mark Queen Elizabeth's golden jubilee and planted them in two little pot's to see if i could grow them over winter and i did i now have two young beautiful baby Oak tree's growing together I've named them Tristan and Isolde and i hope they will be together forever. I just need to find somewhere for them to grow without any problems or harm my garden is to small for them and I'd like nothing more for them to grow undisturbed for hundreds of year's. Thank you for this it was really helpful and interesting 💚
I try every now and then to germinate an acorn... no luck at all, but I will not give up!! Bless Tristan and Isolde :)
That was such a fabulous talk; so much information and work went into that and the illustrations are wonderful. I've always considered the Oak trees as something very special. Great for sitting in when children too, lol. Some 15 yrs ago I had such a memorable dream. I was at a village fair where we all wore oak leaves on our heads and carried oak twigs. It was a special Oak day and we all marched around chanting 'Forward oak'. I'm still puzzling as to what it meant but I think it may have been a message to myself to be strong. :)
I would agree with you about the dream, Oak is such a strong and steadfast tree, I think that energy is what you needed at that point. And thank you for your kind words :)
In my youth we lived on the edge of a large forest in the province of South Limburg in the south of the Netherlands. In my opinion it was a big forest because I was still a small man. Every time the adults started acting strangely towards each other, I fled into the big forest with my drawing supplies under my arm. I then drew a lot of trees. Now fifty years later I still draw plants, trees, but also those strange people. I thought it was a wonderful video about oak trees. Thank you and I have subscribed to your channel.
A splinter of the oak, splits itself! - Ancient Irish Proverb
Thank you for that ... I'll pop that in my sayings folder :)
Thank you. Interesting, informative, peaceful.
I love your folklore stories! Please continue this series of tree folklore, focusing on the trees sacred to the Celts.
Am researching 2 more trees at the moment, and yes... sacred to the Celtic people... not saying which yet because the tree episodes take me an age to research...but this year expect 2 trees!
Gratitude for the Awesome Folky Detail - Liked, Scribed & Shared 🙏🏻💛✨
Thank you so much :)
New viewer here. Excellent. Well done! Informative and beautiful to watch. I appreciate the work done here. Definitely subscribing.
Trees are the most underrated lifeforms on the face of the Earth. ❤
I turned away so many solar salesmen who said we would have to cut down our trees to put in solar panels. I said when you find a way to put them up without harming our trees, we will put in solar. We did a few years later, AND we still have all our trees.
I also have Irish and Scottis on my mothers side and a connection to Rosslyn Chapel. StClair was my grandmothers Maiden name.I think it was Sinclair and changed in New York to StClair. I am enjoying this storey so much. Very imformative!
Thank you so much for your comment, it's wonderful to be able to trace our family roots, gives a real sense of place and connection :)
My last name means oak in swedish! 🌳🌰
Brilliant, a real Oak connection :)
I loved this. (Jane Grey was a rival to Mary's throne, not Eliz
Elizabeth)
Yeah... I remembered too late....DOH!! I'd have re-recorded, re-edited and re-uploaded but I just don't have the time at the mo, so I've added an edit note at the top of the description
Beautiful work
I truly love your videos, and your narration work is excellent too.
Folklore packs much Truth and people just put it off, not me.
We can learn so much from the old ways :)
@@talesoffeyandfolk . Indeed. It seems the trend has been in popular culture to turn from anything that has to do with preservation. Everything from the ancestors, history, education about the natural world, Spirituality, heck even growing organic food and preserving it. Today the term for someone who gardens and preserves their harvest is "prepper." It was just called survival at one point and the Spirit world was self evident to most.
One of the ways to tap into the old world and old ways is through these oral traditions, it is wisdom to be able to glean these things from the lore and Mythologies. Thanks for posting this. Be well
My favourite tree they are beautiful and I also love Oak wood it is beautiful as well but I can't afford it.
I think it's probably my fave as well, there's something so 'solid' about them, reassuring almost
@@talesoffeyandfolk they are solid often they are very old so it feels like they know more than we do. We will come and go but the oak stays I think that makes you feel a connection to those who have looked at the tree over its life and will look at it in the future.
Oak my favorite tree. Always has and always will be
Heartfelt Thank You !❤️🌸🧚🏾♀️🙏
You are so welcome
My rural property is ruled by Grandfather Oak and his consort, Grandmother Pine.
Lovely balance there :)
Very nice work, thank you
This was such a joy to watch , thank you ❤
I live in an oak forest. I've set up a fairy garden and special trees with hanging fae charms. I caught some strange things in the garden on video.
Are they shared on your channel?
@@chickadee317
Doesn't appear so.
@@chickadee317 no I don't cuz frankly I don't need people telling me I made it up or what not. So I just keep it for my friends and family. I don't need stress from TH-cam people.
Lovely, we should all be planting fairy gardens :)
Oh that's fantastic 🤩. Much 💞.
I live in the US and my town is Front Royal ( a rather odd name) .
The explanation is that when they needed to raise a group of soldiers. They were trying to train the local bumpkins who didn’t know their right from their left side, so the drill Sargent would say “ front ( face) the Royal oak, to tell them directions.
From what I can tell , Front Royal, Va is the only place with that name in the world.
I always had an affinity for the oak. It always was, in various ways, a reoccurring motif throughout my life.
The latest example being, that I recently learned that two of my ancestral surnames translate to mean, “Forest of Oak”.
Same here. Can’t explain it , just always held the oak tree in high regard for as long as I can remember
I have very much enjoyed this video :) thank you :)
Excellent. So informative.
Thank you :)
Thank you!!!❤❤❤❤
You are so welcome :)
Lovely ❤ thank you
You're welcome 😊
I love these videos. I do have a small side effect of while listening to you. If I'm not doing something, the music in the background tends to lead to me dreaming about the fairies before the video is over. Which isn't a complaint. You're very relaxing.
Thank you so much.... it's great to hear people like my channel and subjects :)
So beautiful ❤️ thank you for sharing ❤
You are so welcome :)
Best hard wood for furniture, etc.🌿 Gaia doesn't want any sacrifices, Gaia wants love for all her creatures.🌿
Absolutely, Oak is a beautiful wood for working with, our former home the whole main structure was made from Oak and it was lovely to feel the age and the solidity of it. I completely agree about sacrifices, but the ancient people looked at it differently didn't they, I am so thankful we are more aware now of our place within the natural world, well, some of us... but I think that respect for our animal/bird etc brothers and sisters is growing :)
My Favourite of all. Just wonderful.
I love the oak tree. They have great power.
I live surrounded by oaks, some as tall as 75 ft. and others half as tall while others mere
Saplings. About ten years ago I went to the east side of the house and broadcast acorns from the older oaks from the west side. Those acorns are now saplings.
Thank you for your stories.
Bruno
Wonderful to read this, I've been trying for years to get an acorn to germinate in a pot... still no luck, so reading you have created a young grove is just lovely :)
I had oak tree in my garden until my neighbour got it taken down because it was blocking her sunlight and causing a danger in storms how can a neighbour have that much control
Awful! I abhor people who wantonly cut down trees
That is appalling, I am so sad to read this. Trees need to be protected, especially older ones.
I find I am very angry at your stupid neighbour for having this done. I would plant another oak tree on MY PROPERTY.❤❤🎉🎉
They cant
@@supme7558 well my tree is gone
Our family has always had a strong connection to oaks, it's even on our family crest. Every property anyone has owned has oaks, some we planted and some that have been there for centuries. I remember my sister and I climbing them all of our childhood, we believed there were fairies living in one that had a hoke in it, so we never climbed that one 😂.
The Gaelic word Draoi means wise daoine/people of the Oak ie druid
I just love the connections of language, so many threads :)
The mistletoe is killing most of the oak trees in Kern county. It is so upsetting to me and I can't understand why people and the county won't do anything about it !!
This sounds like a job for druids!
That's sad to hear... the answer would be so simple, just take off some of the mistletoe :(
Next door here in Arkansas, the old-timers would harvest mistletoe to sell during the holiday season.
It’s sad the young people aren’t culturally engaged.
Mistletoe?? So much around this. I read in the Obod it's the funeral flower.
I germinated an acorn and it sprouted Two Trees, I have them growing in my lounge room, they are still quite young. I wish I could share a photo of them.
Iove the oak, their life spand 150 years , oh! Odin
wonderful thank you.
Beautiful ! I live on King Oak Hill in Weymouth Massachusetts North America ! Wassagusset Colony founded 1622 !
The Hargo ! Interesting 🤔 And Oak Crowns ! 👑 Amazing ! It's coming together nicely !
Oak names feature a lot in cities in England... which makes me think the place names are in some cases, a nod to forests that once stood there
@@talesoffeyandfolk the old growth forests where cut down buy early settlers still loyal to the Crown in England and others just trying to survive and support their family ! From the East Coast to the Mississippi River over 90% of the forests were cut down by the mid 1800's ! Free Masons and links , the Three Chain Links ⛓️ begun to plant special types of trees in and on important and spiritual places many on mounds and hills , near churches and other covered sacred indigenous arias ! By this time many other people from other countries like Ireland , Italy and Scotland were already settled in the New World and brought their traditions with them ! The Oak Trees roots spread wide though these newcomers and thus began the Oak traditions of the old world in the new world !
@@talesoffeyandfolk buy the mid 1800's 90% of the Old Growth forests were cut down and sent back to England by those still loyal to the Crown . Whether they did it being loyal to England or just greed of money and land , it didn't really matter, our big trees and planks of a certain size were the property of the Crown 👑 !
Many old houses in Plymouth to this day are illegally built with these large scale planks ! I'm sure other places as well . Around the time of the signing of the Declaration of Independence Free Masons and other links like The Three Chain Links ⛓️ begun to plant special types of trees in special and sacred indigenous areas , near and behind Churches and to mark Treasure from Templar Pirates and The Free Mansons ! Oak , Chestnut, White Pine and other trees with their own symbolism and meaning were used ! By this time many other countries like Ireland, Italy and Scotland were merging in their respective traditions and this is when we see these new Trees and Groves appearing in America ! They are Marker Trees for one reason or another !
@@talesoffeyandfolk eh, I think there more like Marker Trees for Sacred Sites, indigenous Sacred Sites, Underground Construction and Treasures of the Old World and the New World ! It's when other countries like Ireland, Italy, and Scotland were merging and their beliefs and customs ! The Templar and Pirates were merging in with other organizations such as the Free Mansons and the Three Links !
Oak , Chestnut, White Pine, and others, each with their own symbolisms and meanings !
There's meaning behind that nod , physical and spiritual !
What a great idea for a channel ❤❤❤. Thank you kindly for your time in creating this🎉
Thank you for your kindness :)
Thanks for an enjoyable listen & thank you so very much for pronouncing Scots & Gaelic names properly. It shows respect, so when other YT channels can't be F'd , I lose my respect for them. BTW The Isle of Islay is a hard one, there's a wiki page with both the English pronunciation & the Gaelic recorded, so you can hear it. The 's' is silent in both cases, in English it's pronounced like the girls' name, Isla (as in Isla St Clair, Isla Fisher, Isla Blair, Isla Phillips etc) & in Gaelic it sounds more like 'EE-luh'. Best wishes & thanks again.
I’m in Texas and we have Live Oak which are long lived and huge, many giants from long ago never felled, takes 2 people to hug some.
Oh wow, I'm going to Google them and have a look, thank you for the info :)
This is absolutely wonderful. Thank you so much for the time and effort you put into this video. I found it entertaining and very informative.
The druids bringing in the miseltoe for the winter solstice is my favourite painting in the local art Gallery Glasgow my home town
Lovely... my fave painting is Hylas and the Nymphs, which lives in my hometown city gallery... in Manchester. Isn't it great when home city galleries have your fave painting!! :)
This hit the algorithm due to “relaxing x to fall asleep to” make more like this!
I thoroughly enjoyed this video and have subscribed.
Thank you so much for a lovely, charming and peaceful brief encounter. I will look forward to more ❤
Pretty kinda good.
Truly a beautiful presentation!
Only just found your channel. Now subscribed. Amazing storytelling. Thank you for sharing.
The artwork is spectacular!!
Bravo 👏 so glad I found your show. Great content, thorough and with references. The artwork is amazing, and the soundtrack is appropriately complimentary to the overall feel of the show. PLEASE don't shorten your broadcast as so many have to 30 minutes. I enjoy listening while going about my daily routine. Just loved it. 🎉🎉🎉
Thank you so much, and don't worry I will never shorten my content, I really like long-form content myself to watch and listen to. Sometimes stories need to take time and are worth the meander through the tales! :)
It helps ladies when they’re having their period and having cramps, the bark is called cramp bark. I like it because of food source, and it lives for a very long time.😊
Lovely!
As an arborist, I get to enjoy climbing mighty oaks.
Brill, you are so lucky , what a wonderful connection with the trees... as someone with arthritis I'm just happy to sit under the canopy and love the Oaks from the floor! :)
I really enjoyed this !!!
Glad you enjoyed it! :)
Im a fantasy writer and this has given me soooo many ideas. Love it! Long-form for the win!
Thank you, glad to be of help.... and yeah... I LOVE long form content too! :)
I love acorns! Oak Trees
Very interesting I know alot about celtic mythology and folklore and I learn some new things!
beautiful reserve of knowledge.
I just now came across your channel in my recommended!! And I'm so happy! Lovely video!✨ Can't wait to binge the rest of them, and definitely looking forward to future uploads from you!❤
Thank you so much for your kind words, so pleased you enjoyed the vid :)
My Maiden Surname is OAKS. I read it comes from the people who lived amongst the Oak Trees.
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I love oak and maple trees. I have two big oak trees at the back of my house and two big maple trees in front. The squirrel really go for the acorns I also have three walnut trees that I get nuts from and the squirrels also eat them
oooo how beautiful! We have Walnut, Mediterranean Pine, Elm and Sweet Chestnut here... it's been interesting learning about these trees I knew nothing about (except Mother Elm, Elms are very special to both me and Marc), and watching them change through the seasons :)
I lost an opportunity when my squirrel condo dropped an old branch! Big it was, but I wish I'd trimmed and decorated it. Mea Culpa; I had a pile of challenges happen all at once. Next time!
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What a wonderful, informative video.…Your voice is the perfect accompaniment ….History, fable, legend….whimsy
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Thanks and welcome...whimsy, yes! I do love a bit of whimsy in my creativity :)
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Looking forward to learning more about this topic😊
Awesome! Thank you! :)
What a wonderful video!! Lovely visuals too. Your voice is very much like Joanne Fletcher's (the Egyptologist).
Oh I LOVE her so much!! Thank you so much for your kind words. :)
Oaks are the trees of Veles and my wife and I got married under one, the oak and the river next to it were our witnesses to the union.