Two examples spotted during our recent visit to Scotland. Where I come from people seeking a granted wish chuck coins into water (usually a fountain of spring) - in Scotland it appears, they hammer the coin into an old stump.
Of course it could be for a totally different reason - similar to why people feel compelled to make balancing rock stacks in some parts of the world.
Hari Om
ReplyDeleteThat's a tradition that goes back to warding off evil... And Very much discouraged these days... Makes interesting photos though! YAM xx
One is right out in the open at Glenfinnan railway viaduct and the 'stump' even looks like it was put there for that purpose. There are squillions of tourists (due to the connection with a certain wizarding story) and people are almost queuing to bash another coin into the stump.
DeleteThe smaller one is at Ben A'An
DeleteIt does look a little weird.
ReplyDeleteWeird or what. I have a tower, small, of stones under one of the lemon trees. As well as jandals siliconed to a tile. Now I wonder why.
ReplyDeleteThe jandals I kinda get. I even get the atteaction of balancing stones - as a kind of meditation.
DeleteThe stumps with coins in look sinister.
ReplyDeleteJRR Tolkiens grave in Oxford is decorated with coins that people have placed there.
ReplyDeleteI've never seen this before. It's interesting how these ideas take hold.
ReplyDeleteI've not come across this custom before - it certainly makes for some strange looking stumps :)
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