Straif The Blackthorn - Autumn Prompt 4 - Part 2

One of 20 modules of 'Ogham Prompts' (formerly ‘Journaling Nature Folklore’)

Let’s not forget the ‘fairy tale’ ‘Sleeping Beauty’, that seems to originate from South of France and Northern Spain, but the Grimms brothers added some elements of gothic tales they learned from Scotland. Within the Sleeping Beauty story, most people know now it tells of Blackthorn bushes forming a thick, impenetrable thorny bush that hides the magic c…