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Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Money grow on tree?

Does money grow on tree? Many people will say money don't grow on a tree but a news by Daily Mail UK show the opposite, money can grow on trees. On trails from the Peak District to the Scottish Highland in UK's woodlands, you can see wishing trees studded with coins that can take sickness away from illness. The coins are usually knocked into felled tree trunks using stones by passers-by, hoping that their sickness will be go away. But do remember, you cannot take the coins away from the tree, it is the same as you take their sickness with it. Sometimes the tress also used as a wishing trees for good luck.


The tradition of the wishing trees coins has been recorded in Britain since 1700s. In a village of Portmeirion, in Wales, There are seven felled tree trunks with coins pushed into them. It used to be believed that divine spirits lived in trees, and they were often festooned with sweets and gifts - as is still done today at Christmas. These fascinating spectacles often have coins from centuries ago buried deep in their bark and warped by the passage of time. The tradition of making offerings to deities at wishing trees dates back hundreds of years, but this combination of the man-made and the natural is far more rare.


In Scotland, there is also a legend about a kissing tree. If a young man could drive a nail into a tree with one blow, he earned a kiss from his sweetheart. Yoko Ono has used wishing trees in her artwork, and in 1877 Queen Victoria wrote about visiting an oak tree with coins stuck in it in the Highlands. In a Pub in Pensacola, USA, patrons who came to the pub put banknote on the pub ceiling to wish their good luck and wish their sickness will go away.

Source: Daily Mail

This is one good way to attract tourist in my opinion. I wonder if Malaysia also have the same kind of tradition? I know a place in Penang where people throw orange to wish that they can get a future husband/wife (not sure if that place exist anymore, a friend brought me there). Some people really love to throw away money in a wishing well, like this in my post about Melaka; its easy to throw away money.

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