Two pale rowan twigs bound into a cross with red wool, no knot and no glue, as the old rhyme instructs: one of the oldest folk charms of Scottish and northern English cottages.
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Rowan tree and red thread, put the witches to their speed. So runs the old rhyme, and this charm follows it exactly: two short lengths of rowan wood, bound at the center into a plain cross with red wool thread, wound…