Royal Moon Magazine ♛ Haunted Trees

Royal Moon Magazine ♛ Haunted Trees
By Deanna Jaxine Stinson aka St. Ana aka Wish Fire aka Saint Gothic
Halo Paranormal Investigations
www.saintgothic.com

The Old Testament tells of Adam and Eve, our progenitors. They lived in paradise in total innocence until the serpent (the devil) enticed them to eat the forbidden fruit from the tree of knowledge. As punishment for their disobedience, God banished them from Paradise. Why is the forbidden fruit often called an apple? * google

Royal Moon Magazine ♛ Haunted Trees

The Juniper Tree

Brothers Grimm

A couple wanted children very badly but, they were unable to have them.

While the woman was peeling an apple underneath a juniper tree in the courtyard, she accidentally cut her finger.

As the blood spilled everywhere in the ice, she made a wish:

"If only I had a child as red as blood and as white as snow."

Royal Moon Magazine ♛ Haunted Trees

She almost fell in love with the tree itself, convinced it was lucky.

She came out in each month and season and lay beneath it, eating under the grand skies dreaming.

Her wish did come true very soon and she found herself with child.

Just as she imagined, the baby came out quite perfect.

Yet as soon as she saw this she died right there from happiness.

Her husband buried her beneath this tree, just as she had requested on a prior time.

Royal Moon Magazine ♛ Haunted Trees

The man remarries and his new wife and him have a daughter.

However, the stepmother is very abusive towards the son he had from the prior relationship.

This came almost entirely of her wanting to get all of her husband's inheritance, lest he died too soon and not share.

Well, she was a quite tormented individual and kept apples in a chest from the children.

"The chest had a large heavy lid with a large sharp iron lock."

The woman would not give the sister an apple without the brother there, so they waited for him to return home.

When he came back from his school his mother look as though the "Evil One" had came over her.

He told her how angry she looked!

She told him to reach in and take and apple in a kind voice, but when he did she beheaded him with the chest.

From there she tied his head back to his body with a white scarf, placing an apple in his hand and putting him by the door.

Then the daughter questions to the mother why he has not moved or will not answer her and she said box his ears!

She did and the head fell off, so she believed she killed him while the mother suggested they chopped him up into a stew.

They told the father he had left for the countryside, meanwhile feeding him the stew they had made from his body.

The man was discarding the bones underneath the table and then when done she tied them into the scarf and buried them under the juniper tree.

Royal Moon Magazine ♛ Haunted Trees

Then the juniper tree began to move.

From the branches a mist rose and in the center of this mist it burned like a fire, and a beautiful bird flew out of the fire singing magnificently, and 

"it flew high into the air, and when it was gone, the juniper tree was just as it had been before, and the cloth with the bones was no longer there."

The bird flew away singing songs esp for reward.
Then the bird flew away and lit up on a goldsmith's house, and began to sing- while being rewarded with a gold chain.

He went to a shoe makers house and retrieved beautiful shoes.

The mill workers gave him a chiseled stone.

He came back and sang towards the family:

Then the bird seated itself on the juniper tree, and sang:
"My mother, she killed me..."

and continued on with how exactly ,while she tries to run away the bird hurls a stone at her and she dies.

"The father and Marlene heard it and went out. Smoke, flames, and fire were rising from the place, and when that was over, the little brother was standing there, and he took his father and Marlene by the hand, and all three were very happy, and they went into the house, sat down at the table, and ate."

Haunted Trees

manchineel

The manchineel tree is one of the most dangerous plants in the world, and it can be found in Florida.

it's often accompanied by cautionary signs and a bright red band painted around its trunk as a warning to all who pass by...

"The plant gets its name from the Spanish word manzanilla, which means "little apple." It is so named because the fruit and foliage of the plant resemble those of apple trees."

The fruit are quite poisonous and toxic, even wreaking havoc in many ancient legends.The manchineel wood itself results in blindness for weeks if you touch it and then your eyes afterwards.

Every single part from the sap, to the fruit, limbs and leaves will hurt you.