I grew up in Appalachia. When I was two I got whooping cough really bad. My parents split an ash sapling and passed me through then tied the sapling back together. Both the tree and I survived until last year the tree died from the emerald ash bore. I hope I 'm not next!
The exact same practice was written about by a Victorian folklorist. Her research in Sussex (southern England) noted that a child would be passed through a sapling Ash tree 3 times over 3 days, with nine people in attendance.
@@maknorman7250 I did not receive any greater details other than I related. Both parents and their siblings are long dead now so can't get more information about specifics. Wish I had paid attention better and asked more questions.
@@randysmith5435 Amazing to think that old healing method travelled with those that migrated from England. In another account I have from the late 19th cent, the land owner was asked by the parents of the sick child, never to cut the tree down, to which he agreed.
This is my first time hearing of the practice, but I love it and it makes perfect sense - it’s working with the science and principles of electromagnetic fields and quantum entanglement. When you pass through the heart of the split tree, your magnetic field is becoming entangled with that of the tree. Therefor, what happens to the tree will also happen to you. The tree is able to grow back together once it’s bound, and then as it continues to thrive, it pulls you with it - you’re pulled back into health and balance within the space-time matrix!
When me and my brother were children, we would sometimes open the zipper of a duvet to get in. He was the older of us and he would tell me stories that we had entered another world. It seemed so believable to me that I really felt like I was in another world. I saw strange, furrowed mountain landscapes under a snow-white sky. Despite the tightness of the bedspread, the scene looked like a wide landscape to me. We plunged deeper and deeper into this world on a spiral (we turned in circles) and told each other stories. It was a cool time.
I once went too far into a duvet cover when I was a little boy, got it so mixed up I couldn't find my way out I thought I was stuck there forever haha. one of my most vivid memories
Yeah. In my public school education, European history was always presented as bland or ho-hum. Sometimes people take the familiar for granted, no matter how important it is.
@@jacksnhawker5165 How very true. Europeans make up less than 10% of the global population. Let's hope that other 90% stands up for the true ethnic minority.
@@The_Reality_Filter Not sure about 90%, but as i get older, experience helps with separating wheat from chaff and natural tastes and preferences override negative propaganda. Now, if I can just stay positive and avoid typo ridden ranting
@@jacksnhawker5165 I think the brand of European history the focus on is Late Middle Ages and Renaissance which is indeed heavy reading for even scholars. History curriculums are also designed terribly, teaching more of the things you DON'T want to learn (I have no interest in rattling off the names of an entire ruling dynasty by rote).
Very interesting as usual, Tom. It is quite similar to chi-no-wa, the shinto ceremony of passing through the hoop, as well as its ancient antecedent: wearing a small grass ring on the hip to ward off evil and disease.
Did Tom ever talked about Shinto? There are so many elements there that are similar to European native religions that I would love to hear his opinion.
There was a Slavic practice similar to the Sami’s. When a bear was killed, they would take the pelt into the house through the window, to avoid the bear’s dangerous spirit entering through the door.
After Marriage my wife and I went on a trip to England and she went backwards through that hole. Took us a bit but now we‘re expecting twins. Just saying
@@leeetchells609 he didn't have sex there, LMAO. He said she went through the hole, they later did the stuff and NOW they're expecting. context, my friend
Hi, people round Norfolk way believed looking through naturally made holes can help you to see magic. These include holes in buckets, stones, wood but they must be naturally occurring
HOLY HOLES!!! Survive the Jive got a Raid sponsor. I honestly thought one of Our Guys couldnt get a sponsor, let alone a Raid sponsorship. This must mean STJ is peak optics then lol. Regardless, keep up the good work and take care.
Brilliant to see European folklore revealed. Just thinking - Late Bronze Age Socketed Axes have a single Side Loop for cording attachment. The outline therefore resembles a body with a bent arm. . .
The Welsh ritual bit was interesting, I did 6 months of Welsh language lessons a couple of years ago and remember the teacher telling us about a vaguely similar thing in her village. I can't remember the ins and outs but it was something to do with the young people doing a lap of the chapel and looking through the keyhole on New Year's Eve I believe. No knives involved
This guy is an independent producer that competes with media companies owned by billionaires (and often funded with government grants) that spread misinformation and it has to be said, anti-white propaganda.
I knew a family who had a tree like this in their yard on their farm, inside the tree was a brick arch that the tree grew over this is in South Africa in one of our older areas that we settled here so it might be that our forebears still had this practice albeit limited because they were German and Dutch descendents just somthing I remembered while watching this video
That's so cool that you got to see that. I bet that it was pretty wild once you realized that that was probably why that tree was like that. It's crazy when you're so used to something and realize all of a sudden what it's purpose is.
@@trenthobson2756 Yes I just recently became aware of this practice and I put 2 and 2 together it was a true lightbulb moment for me also thank you for being so nice I did not think I would even get a response. bless you and have a awesome day fren.
Great content in this one. These folklore videos are really fascinating. A possible example of passing through of the dead from a non-I.E context is in New Zealand; in certain Māori tribes when someone has died, after services held in a whare (traditional longhouse), instead of being carried through the door, the deceased will be passed through the window adjacent to it.
@@ryan.1990 Not entirely, ancient religions do still have an influence on modern Christianity and some of their practices are older than the modern world. Many are reimagining's and constructed - but others are old. Such as the Yule log and much of Christmas coming from Roman and Germanic beliefs. You also have things like Halloween which were inspired by the traditions of the ancient Celts.
Come to think of it, there is a lush grove dear to me where a path along a pond goes under an arm of bramble. Passing through this gate feels meaningful, the more so on green spring days with rain and haze.
I've climbed through Men-an-tol (I must go back and put my Son through too!). I'm not a mystical type but I felt a static sensation and a sense of calm afterwards.
The ultimate portal could be Tech Duinn - Bull Rock Islet in the Atlantic Ocean on the southwest coast of Ireland. In Irish Legend it is Dwelling of Donn, ‘Dark One’ - hosting site and passage to the Otherworld. I have read modern theories suggesting Vikings from Limerick may have modified the local Irish folklore making the passage the realm of an Odin influenced Donn (?)
I got spooked when I saw that fairy by the stream. Something about it's uncanniness that got me and I'd definitely scream if I came across it or anything that appeared like that.
As a child, my grandfather was dragged through a hole in a tree by a wise woman, in order to cure him of rickets. This was still pretty common in the 20's in Sweden. His parents also got home some magic herbs, but my great- grandmother was sceptical and threw them away.
I'd be very interested to know if the idea of looking through a hole of some form, be it hagstone or keyhole, might be related to the very real phenomena of pinhole lenses or the principle behind the camera obscura. The similarity if looking through a hole to gain clarity is striking.
There is and old fir tree in a park where I live that has a large root that forms a perfect circle that a child could pass through. I, my siblings and cousins called it the wishing tree and we would crawl through it every time we went there and make a wish. It seemed obvious that there was something special about this tree. Of course I knew nothing of this tradition at that time. Very interesting.
We have the "modern" tradition of a newlywed couple passing through the door, the groom carries the bride over the threshold of their home on the first day of being married in their home.
Thanks, I really enjoyed this, particularly the references to Irish traditional beliefs, some of which I hadn't heard of before. I'm impressed with the depth of your research. I look forward to your next video!
The native American sweat lodge ritual is intended to produce a spiritual experience from the dehydration, culminating in CRAWLING out of the hole, the entrance, as a rebirth of sorts and cleansing of ills.
Hello. Good job. I live in the North of Portugal. There is a pilgrimage to a chapel of Our Lady of Aparecida in which people have to go through a hole in a rock to cure their ailments. I like the theme he addresses in the documentaries. In the 24:50 time of the video it mentions that Juan and Mary as the parents of Jesus.... Joseph and Mary Juan is John in Espnhol.
Here near Amsterdam we have old houses with a 'doodsdeur,' (door of death), a door that is usually closed off and was only used for the exit of corpses. 'So the dead don't come back' I was told, but unclear why that would be seen as a bad thing.
I appreciate how many examples you've gathered here. Its obvious to me its rebirth related, no doubt changed over the centuries. Looking back through your lineage and fertility/birth rituals/naming ceremonies. Its just a big old fanny. Father Christmas does the same thing when you think about it.
Thank you for this. When I was a child my step mom and aunt took me to the queen Mary, a known Hotspot for paranormal activity. Walking around the ship we stopped and looked through the keyhole of a banquet room, they looked first and saw a beautiful empty room. I looked through it and saw a wedding with everyone dressed in 30s attire and they all stopped and looked back at me damn near shit myself.
i went to see the queen mary in long beach in 2001. i didn't know my great grandmother had been on a cruise on it in the twenties. have photo of her in that banquet room,
@@Survivethejive very cool. Thinking back on the topic I had another similar experience up in Virginia city, Montana. Many of the workers there dress the part of late 1800s, looking through another key hole of a boarded up building same thing guys building stuff in a metal workshop, go there again back in 2014 and the boards removed/new windows it looked abandoned for a century.
The only thing I can think that tracks from Ireland is an older Imbolc ritual, where they would weave a large ring from rushes & carry it around, asking people to pass through it for good luck.
