tempest-tree

Updated: May 29, 2025

In seven hours the deluge and the hurricane!" "Vamos, por la Santissima! For the blessed Virgin's sake let us be gone!" cried a dozen of the Mexicans, pushing two green boughs into our very faces. "What are those branches?" "From the tempest-tree the prophet of the storm," was the reply.

Various - Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844