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Did the 500-Year Old Whiteleaved Oak Burn Because of a Pagan Offering?

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Did the 500-Year Old Whiteleaved Oak Burn Because of a Pagan Offering?

Lighting a candle to a tree. Dear Gods.

How could anyone be so stupid?

In England's Malvern Hills, the 500-year old Whiteleaved Oak has gone up in flames. Charred tea-lights were found at its base.

Dear Gods. How could anyone be so stupid?

Tea-lights are despicable anyway, and never a worthy offering. Ask yourself: what kind of offering leaves garbage behind?

Hear, O Pagandom:

Not all offerings are appropriate to all gods in all circumstances.

Fire is never an appropriate offering to a tree.

My people, let us think before we offer.

Did a pagan offering burn the 500-year old Whiteleaved Oak? Let us sincerely hope that it did not.

Dear Gods. How could anyone be so stupid?

 

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Poet, scholar and storyteller Steven Posch was raised in the hardwood forests of western Pennsylvania by white-tailed deer. (That's the story, anyway.) He emigrated to Paganistan in 1979 and by sheer dint of personality has become one of Lake Country's foremost men-in-black. He is current keeper of the Minnesota Ooser.
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