row'n-tree

Updated: June 7, 2025

Indeed, so potent is the ash as a counter charm to sorcery, that even the smallest twig renders their actions impotent; and hence, in an old ballad entitled "Laidley Wood," in the "Northumberland Garland," it is said: "The spells were vain, the hag returned To the queen in sorrowful mood, Crying that witches have no power, Where there is row'n-tree wood."

T. F. Thiselton (Thomas Firminger Thiselton) Dyer - The Folk-lore of Plants