Aspen Tree Magic

This video (with mostly borrowed pictures) presents the Aspen/Finnish 'haapa'/Swedish 'asp' / Latin 'Populus tremula'.

I picked the facts from a few books, but the feeling for trees is something I inherited from my grandmother, who taught me a thing or two.

Old documents from as late as the 19th century speak of clegymen in Finland who wished to cut down certain sacrificial trees and were hard pressed to find any workmen to do the job, since cutting down a holy tree was believed to bring bad luck and illness.

Aspen is a relatively short-lived tree, so it was rarely chosen as a sacrifical tree, but there is believed to have been sacred aspen in a grove near Uppsala in Sweden. The quotation below tells of a Finnish man who cut down tree aspen and in a dream found out that they had been sacred, after which he fell ill:

"Tuomas Kutvonen hakkas kolome haapoo, jotka ol yksillä juurilla. Ei hiän hakatessaan mittään tiennä, mutta unissa hänelle sanottiin, että mittäs sie hakkasit, että ne ol lyyliteltyjä puita. Ja siitä tul sille se, että sormi turpos, ja sille ei mahtana leäkärit mittään." (Sääminki 1938)

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[LokiSilverFlame]

SO awesome! I'm glad I stumbled on your videos today. :)

[EneriGiilaan]

@brunaim No problem. I actually had to check - and this is indeed Sanna's composition. But Tellu was still going by her maiden name Paulasto, not Virkkala (nowadays she is Tellu Turkka) - just wanted to correct this most important piece of information :)

[brunaim]

@EneriGiilaan Thank you very much!!!

[EneriGiilaan]

@brunaim It is a Swedish band "Hedningarna" and the song is "Täss'on Nainen". They used to have two Finnish female vocalist singing in Finnish - there were four different singers during the years but always two at a time - the guys also occasionally sang - in Swedish.

The singers here are Tellu Virkkala and Sanna Kurki-Suonio. If I recall, Sanna has wrote the song based on Kalevala text.

There is lot of stuff by them in the YT - check them out - and then buy the CDs (I did) they are worth it ;)

[brunaim]

may I ask who is the singer and the title of the song?

thanks

[JERHxART]

I have an Aspen either side of an entrance to the Wildwood beyond my wildwood garden......a tree that whispers without the wind :)

[Treewich]

Thanks! Yes, haltijainen is the word for guardian spirit used in the lyrics. Aspen is a strong tree in a magical sense, a very special tree. There's one thing I didn't mention in the video: The aspen spread by clones rising from the roots of the trees. The tree itself may die, but the clones go on living and spreading more clones. So death as an individual doesn't really mean much to an aspen tree. One aspen clone studied in Utah consisted of 47 000 trees. Talk about eternal life!

[moonmaria]

-I thought; this could be the last time I see him alive.

So the urgency in the dream exhorted me to keep searching.

Eventually I looked up my friends father who in young age was an apprentice with a Sami shaman in northern sweden, and he adviced me to use the root from an Aspen who grow just beside streaming water.

He said that the Aspen root growing in touch with streaming water is just as strong as the Mandrake root!

Thank You for beautiful videos!!!

(Wow "..Haltijainen.." is it the lyrics?)

[moonmaria]

Years ago I had a dream where I was told to make a protective amulet to a friend.

The dream had a strong feeling of urgency so I took it seriously.

This was before the times of internet and I couldn't figure out how to get a piece of the Mandrake root which was the instructions in the dream (I don't commit myself to any -ism or rituals and I had almoust no knowledge about the "magical" Mandrake).

My friend was very dear to me and lived his life in a way that every time I met him-