Good and Evil Medieval Trees

The association of different trees in medieval thought with their being an influence for good or evil is considered in a recent online post from mediaevalists.net 

The article can be seen at Trees in the Middle Ages: The Good and The Bad

Thinking about it I am a little oh that was brilliant brilliant I’m really surprised material of this sort is not included in Oliver Rackham’s Trees and Woodland in the British Landscape and his History of the Countryside. These two volumes are ones I cannot praise too highly, and are a rich deposit of information and insight. They really should be on the bookshelf af any pre-modern historian, and not a few who look at the passed to centuries. 

I used to know slightly through work a young woman who described herself as an Athiest Quaker Pagan - which tells you quite a bit about both her and those three belief systems - and whose mother was into tree hugging. On one occasion she described how the mother became overwrought hugging a yew tree ( I think) and her daughter  had to prise her free and rush her to embrace a nearby oak to recover……Takes all sorts I suppose.