Sunday, March 23, 2008

Bottle Tree






DID YOU KNOW? Bottle Trees are a Mississippi favorite, a tree (a wooden stick covered in wooden dowels) covered in bottles to catch evil spirits before they could reach your home. It is believed this practice originated in the Caribbean on the island of Haiti and was brought to the mainland by slaves from Africa.

Actually, bottle trees can be found in people's yards all over the world.
My grandmother has a bottle tree.  Its beautiful.  

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