1d6 trees and their oddites

1d6 weird trees and their rituals 

Happy Christmas everyone. Secret Santicorn is this year and this was Panic Pillow's prompt.

1. The Gorana Oaks are a medium sized white tree with large, rectangular yellow berries and pine tree like leaves. A common ritual before a long journey is for all of a traveling group has to climb the top of the tree and eat the highest leaf, hoping it would give you safe travels so that when you return, you can eat the fruit. Rumor has it any demons who eat the leaf get inhumane amounts of stomach pain.

2. A Calvius yew tree is large, brown tree with thin, light green leaves. A common folk cure for a easy childbirth is to put the mother-to-be at the bottom of the tree and have a relative blindfolded at the top of it. The yew bark leaves a slippery sap during winter. Once the relative gets down from the tree without aid and lives, the child will be born and nature will have a new ally.

3. Wyrdwerwood is a small, grey tree devoid of leaves year round that twists around structures. A community may throw the best of their harvest at he bottom of the tree. The next harvest, those who have passed on come to repay the favor. If the blood of a healthy calf is mixed in, the dead would take illness with them once the favor is repaid.

From Christmas trees in the mail


4. The Hopiagh tree is red with yellow spots across it's bark. It's leaves are wide and orange all year round. Odran The Oracle once ate every single leaf off the tree and after a month of being bedridden with sickness and regret, he knew that his king would fall in 14 days. Your mileage may vary.

5. The Carcinous fir has crystal-like bark and has obsidian black leaves. If you break off a twig and put it in your purse with money, you will always have that amount of money in your pocket no matter what. The only issue is finding any trees since they are practically extinct. Except there's an awful lot in Holy Gardens.

6. The Sailor's Spine is a dark purple tree with ghost white leaves. Some fishermen have found that putting branches of Sailor's spine in the water lead to fish swimming as fast as they can from hooks and string, much to the joy of spear fishers. Although fish that live near the Spine are normally bigger and more aggressive than the average fish.

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