Tree Magic: Connecting with the Spirit & Wisdom of Trees: Connecting with the Spirit & Wisdom of Trees

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As a wand-maker (or wand purchaser), you may wish to know more about the different woods that lend their character to your magickal tools. Let’s dive into tree magic of the Celts, including the magical properties of trees and Ogham – the sacred tree alphabet.

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It is a quirk of these handsome wands that they may combust if allowed to become ‘bored’, and many witches and wizards, settling down into middle age, are disconcerted to find their trusty wand bursting into flame in their hand as they ask it, one more time, to fetch their slippers.

Hollow trees use the chances to determine success, then upon success have an additional (unknown) chance of providing 82. Those witches and wizards best suited to ash wands are not, in my experience, lightly swayed from their beliefs or purposes. There are 7 standard tree patches: at Lumbridge, Varrock Castle, Falador Park, Taverley, Gnome Stronghold, Trahaearn district of Prifddinas, and the tier 2 Woodcutter's Grove.

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Hawthorn wands may be particularly suited to healing magic, but they are also adept at curses, and I have generally observed that the hawthorn wand seems most at home with a conflicted nature, or with a witch or wizard passing through a period of turmoil. The Inferno Adze requires level 92 Firemaking and level 60 Woodcutting to use but only requires level 1 Attack to wield. Wands made from Cedar are ideal for cleansing and warding, as well as creating sacred space where learning can flourish. Unless you happen to live in the tropics, you’re not going to be able to go out back and prune a branch of Mahogany for your wandcraft. However, if the Firemaking requirement is boosted to get it, the player is able to use it but not wield it.

Although heavily associated with magic, the most skilled farmers have found success cultivating these trees.

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Level 55 farmers may grow a mahogany tree by planting a mahogany sapling in a hardwood tree patch using a spade. In the American South, Witch Hazel is used in dowsing rods for water witching and other folk magick customs and formulas. Others should be very careful handling a hazel wand if its owner has recently lost their temper, or suffered a serious disappointment, because the wand will absorb such energy and discharge it unpredictably.The witch or wizard who is well-matched with cedar carries the potential to be a frightening adversary, which often comes as a shock to those who have thoughtlessly challenged them. As is usually the case with wandlore, the general populace have the truth back to front: redwood wands are not themselves lucky, but are strongly attracted to witches and wizards who already possess the admirable ability to fall on their feet, to make the right choice, to snatch advantage from catastrophe. Cured Apple wood is widely available, and fresh branches can often be found for free, especially if you know a landscaper or arborist.

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Poplar (also known as Tulipwood or Whitewood) is a creamy yellow timber, sometimes tinted toward grey or green. A mahogany tree sapling will take 8 hardwood growth ticks (at most 5,120 minutes or approximately 3 days, 13 hours, and 20 minutes) to grow to mature. The woodcutting stumps on Neitiznot can be used to make special items out of the arctic pine logs native to the island. My father, Gervaise Ollivander, used always to say, ‘you will never fool the cedar carrier,’ and I agree: the cedar wand finds its perfect home where there is perspicacity and perception. English Woodlands takes a look at some of the intriguing stories that are associated with common trees.

Hawthorn is regarded as a sacred tree, great misfortune was threatened to come to those who destroyed it. Folklore suggested that holly wood had an affinity for control, especially of horses, and most whips for ploughmen and horse-drawn coaches were made from coppiced holly.