13 May 2003 @ 05:46, by Lydia Teo
Not too long ago I remember reading on someone's blog about "tying a yellow ribbon around a tree" in welcome for the returning service men from Iraq and querying what this was about.
Tonight while watching the idiot box there was a documentary about the festival of Beltane celebrated on the first of May or the beginning of the spring in the Northern Hemisphere. It turns out that this strange ritual has to do with wishes and Druid traditions.
It is a Druid ritual from a place in Cornwall where those who want a wish to come true tie a piece of material around a branch of a tree. I'ts not "tying a yellow ribbon 'round an old oak tree" but its making a wish and tying the piece of fabric around a branch in a special part of the forrest, where you certaily could imagine fairies or beings from the Druid otherworld to pass the time of day.
Looking into this even further it most probably is a link to Ogham which is the tree-language of Druidry and was the only way those who were not skilled in this secret knowledge of Ogham, but saught to commune with the "otherworld" to petition for their wish to come true.
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