Cherry Tree - Spring Prompt 5 - Part 2

One of 20 modules of ‘Journaling Nature Folklore’

Within English folklore, the Cherry Tree has a strong connection to the cuckoo birds, and I think that was largely ‘prompted’ by the ‘Cherry Tree Carol’.

Cherry Tree Carol was composed by Franciscan monks from Italy, in Yorkshire, I believe. I have heard that they re-wrote the carol from an older local traditional song, but the content of that original …