Where Oak, Ash & Thorn Grow Together...

A place where an oak tree, an ash tree and any type of thorn tree, - a blackthorn [actually, a type of bush], a whitethorn, or even a hawthorn, grow naturally together is a truly magickal place.  Sometimes, very rarely, these trees might even be growing out of a crack in rock, which makes them called "flying"; that is not even growing in ground...  So magical!!!

An oak is considered a "male" tree.  Most people know that oaks can be very, very old, as is evidenced in the ancient oaks that once grew in some Druid circles in Old England.  Oak is an extremely dense, strong wood.  In fact, it is practically impossible to drive a knife or a sword through the heartwood of a big, big, old oak tree.  Old oaks can be faerie trees; many are...  There is a tiny poem that goes --- "Faerie folks are in old oaks."  A fallen old oak will send up shoots from it's roots, - "babies", if you will...  Many old oak coppices are said, in folklore, to be inhabited and haunted by a sinister hermit-like type of fey called "oakmen".

The hawthorn is known for it's sweet smelling clusters of white blossoms, which are sometimes simply called "May".  It is bad luck to cut down or to cut off branches from a hawthorn.  A "silver branch" is said to be created from a thorn tree and known to be a help to entering other worlds. 

The old ash groves in the Celtic Isles [England, Ireland and Wales] were very sacred places.  There is an song:  "The ash grove, how graceful...  How plainly is speaking...  The wind in it's branches is calling to me..."