The Magic of Coin-Trees from Religion to Recreation The Roots of a Ritual /

• Main Author: Houlbrook, Ceri (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic
• Subjects: Great Britain-History.; Social history.; Europe-History-1492-.; Civilization-History.; Religion-History.; History of Britain and Ireland.; Social History.; History of Early Modern Europe.; Cultural History.; History of Religion.

This book traces the history of ritual landscapes in the British Isles, and the transition from religious practice to recreation, by focusing on a highly understudied exemplar: the coin-tree. These are trees imbued with magical properties into which coins have been ritually embedded. This is a conte...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Introduction: Coining the Coin Tree
• Chapter 2. Roots of a Ritual
• Chapter 3. The Democratization of the Landscape
• Chapter 4. Contemporary Engagement
• Chapter 5. The Mutability of Meaning
• Chapter 6. Manipulating Meaning
• Chapter 7. Green Monuments and their Heritage
• Chapter 8. Concluding Thoughts
• Index.