What Willow Folklore Surrounds This Beautiful Tree?

The weeping willow is a common sign of mourning. Willow folklore often pokes tendrils into death superstitions and sayings. Margaret Baker relates the belief that “[i]n Louisiana, […] when a willow grew large enough to cast a grave-sized shadow, a family member would die” (2011, p. 159). In the UK, no builders in the Fens used […]

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