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THE MYTHOLOGY OF BIRCH TREES
When the huge glaciers of the last ice age receded, birch trees would have been one of the first to re-colonise the rocky, ice-scoured landscape.
Hence, ecologists refer to birch as a pioneer species.
An elegant native of British woods, of all Northern European countries and of North America, the birch is tall, up to sixty or so metres in height, with a slender pale trunk. It grows in clearings, preferring sunlight, but is not fussy about soil and is very hardy although not especially long lived.
The word birch comes from a Proto-Indo-Eurpean root word bhereg-, meaning “to shine, bright, white”.
The white bark is very unusual, thin and loose it can peel away from the tree like paper. Even the layers can be carefully peeled apart and it’s thought that the name Birch came either from the Sanskrit word ‘bhurga’, which literally meant 'a tree whose bark is used for writing upon’, or from ‘bher’ – meaning ‘shining white’.
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Beithe (pronounced ‘bey’) is the Gaelic word for birch.
In Celtic Mythology, The Druid tree symbol for the Bards - ‘The Goddess Tree’ - ‘The Lady of the Woods’, the Birch tree, Betula Pendula is the bringer of promise, renewal, light and new beginnings.
Birch or Beithe, is the first tree of the Ogham, the Celtic tree alphabet. It was celebrated during the festival of Samhain (what is now Halloween in Britain).
Samhain was the start of the Celtic year, when purification was important and people used bundles of birch twigs to drive out the spirits of the old year.
birch also has strong fertility connections with the celebrations of Beltane.
This was the second, summer, half of the Celtic year (nowadays celebrated as May Day). People made Beltane fires in Scotland with birch and oak, and a birch tree was often used as a, sometimes living, maypole.
As birch is one of the first trees to come into leaf it would be an obvious choice as a symbol of spring. Love and fertility goddesses, such as the northern European Frigga and Freya, have strong associations with birch.
Eostre (from whom we derive the word Easter) was the Anglo Saxon goddess of spring. She was celebrated around and through the birch tree between the spring equinox and Beltane. According to the medieval herbalist Culpeper, Venus (the planet and the goddess) rules over birch.

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In Highland folklore, a barren cow herded with a birch stick would become fertile, or a pregnant cow bear a healthy calf.
Later this would evolve into the ‘beating the bounds’ ceremonies in local parishes.
Gardeners still use the birch besom, or broom, to ‘purify’ their gardens, and besoms were also the archetypal witches’ broomsticks.
They used them in their shamanic flights, sometimes after the use of extracts of the fly agaric mushrooms found in birchwoods.

Folklore and herbalism credit different parts of the birch with a variety of medicinal properties. The leaves are diuretic and antiseptic, and a remedy for cystitis and other urinary tract infections. The leaves and sap were also used to treat kidney stones, rheumatism and gout. The sap was recommended for skin complaints and the bark is said to ease muscle pain if applied externally.
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Why I was so excited, finding BIRCH TREES?? Ha ha
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