August 24, 2004
Walnut Trees
Bibliography, Links, Resources
Black Walnut Explorations. By Carlene Cooper. 19Kb.
California Walnut Marketing Board
Gothic Gardening: Walnut
Comments on the walnut tree's reputation as a sinister tree.
Plant Friends of the Black Walnut
Mark Rieger's Fruit Crops
Facts, information, cultivation, folkore, botany.
Mystical World Wide Web:
Trees
Nut Trees:
Folklore, Magick, Myths, Legends, Esoterica
Sacred Trees. By Nathaniel Altman. San Francisco, Sierra Club
Books, c 1994.
244 pages, index, bibliography, list of organizations, illustrations,
drawings, black
and white photos. ISBN: 0882666207.
The Spirit of Gardening.
Over 2,700 quotes arranged by over 135 topics. Complied by
Michael P. Garofalo.
Tree
Medicine - Tree Magic. By Ellen Evert Hopman and Diana
Green. Custer,
Washington, Phoenix Pub., 1992. 176 pages. ISBN: 0919345557.
Trees for Healing: Harmonizing with Nature for Personal Growth and Planetary
Balance.
By Pamela Louise Chase and Jonathan Pawlik. North
Hollywood, California, Newcastle
Publishing Co., Inc., 1991. 257 pages. Notes,
bibliography, list of organizations. The lore
and magical aspects of trees. ISBN: 0878771573.
MGC. Organized by areas of the
United States. Includes a bibliography.
Trees - Quotes for Gardeners I 70Kb.
Trees - Quotes for Gardeners II 120Kb. Includes a
bibliography and links.
Trees - Quotes for Gardeners III 46Kb.
Trees - Quotes for Gardeners IV 48Kb. Includes
quotations about wild trees and forests.
Trees: Lore,
Spirituality, Magic, Folklore, Myths
Walnut -
Botanical.com (A Modern Herbal) 17Kb.
The Walnut: History,
Nutrution, Folklore, Recipes. Vegetarians in Paradise.
39Kb.
Walnut - Juglans Facts, cultivation, history,
folklore. By Mark Rieger. 22Kb
Walut Recipes and Cooking By Peggy Trowbridge. 20Kb.
Walnut Trees: Lore, Myths, Magick, Esoterica. By Michael P.
Garofalo.
Walnut Trees - Red Bluff,
California
Walnut Varieties from the
University of California
Walnuts in the
Perigord, France
Walnuts: Myth, Lore,
Magick, Esoterica
The Wisdom of Trees. By Jane Gifford. New York, Sterling Publishing,
2000.
160 pages. ISBN: 0806927852.
Wonderful Walnuts, Wisdom and
Folklore 14Kb.
World Wide Walnut An outstanding site!!
Walnut Trees
Quotes, Poems, Lore, Notes
"Worthy of mention also, in Leland's Book [Charles
Leland, Magic and Occult Remedies, 1892]
is the story about the walnut witches. Manuscripts from old witch trials
in Italy speak of this
walnut tree which (it is said) had always been there and was in leaf all year
long. For centuries,
legends were told of the great witch gatherings in the town of Benevento, at the
site of an ancient
walnut tree. In the year 662 A.D., Saint Barbato converted the Duke of
Benevento (a pagan) to
Christianity and had the tree cut down. The witches replanted the walnut
tree from seed, and
legend says it still stands in Benevento. Bottles of Strega Liguore,
manufactured in Benevento
today, bear labels upon which appears the old walnut tree with a group of
witches and satyrs
dancing around it." This activity was associated with the worship of
the Goddess Diana.
- Raven Grimassi, Ways of the Strega, 1995, p. 11
"Some scholars say the term derives from the Teutonic
German wallnuss or welsche nuss
and and others from the Anglo-Saxon word wealh meaning foreign or alien
and hnutu meaning
nut. It's difficult to trace the native home of the walnut tree, but ancient
Romans believe it
originated in Persia. Early cultivation spanned from southeastern Europe to Asia
Minor
to the Himalayas. Greek usage of walnut oil dates back to the fourth century
B.C., nearly a
century before the Romans. Franciscan priests brought the walnut to California,
USA around
1770."
Peggy Trobridge, Walnut
Recipes and Cooking
"Drive through the verdant valleys of the Périgord Noir
and you cannot help but be struck by the
majestic groves of walnut trees that grace the landscape. Although the trees you
see today are
newer, there is evidence that the walnut has existed in this corner of the world
for 17,000 years
or more, and that the nuts figured into the diet of Crô-Magnon man. The walnut
has played a
prominent role in the local culture and commerce since then. Tenth-century
peasants paid their
debts off with the nuts; 11th-century peasants were expected to tithe
walnuts to the church;
13th-century merchants considered walnut oil as precious as gold; and
in the 18th century,
walnut oil as well as wine constituted a thriving trade on the waters of the
Dordogne toward
Bordeaux and beyond to the Netherlands, Germany, and Great Britain."
- Walnuts
in the Perigord (Southwest France)
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