OAK TREE OMENS
In an account of the celebration of Lord Ramsay’s coming of age, the "Scotsman” mentions the Edgewell .Tree, an oak from which, according to a legend in the Cockpen district, near Edinburgh, a branch fell whenever a member of the family was about to die. The original tree was blown down many years ago. but a new one has sprung up from the old root. The omen is. no longer believed, but there is a story, going back no further than 1874, that an old forester on a still day in July of that year saw a branch fall from this oak, and exclaimed: "The Laird’s dead noo!” News duly came that Fox Maulo, eleventh Earl of Dalhousie, had died.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12286, 4 November 1925, Page 2
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123OAK TREE OMENS New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12286, 4 November 1925, Page 2
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