Visitors to public and private gardens across the southern United States will observe an ancient African tradition adorning the grounds – the colorful bottle tree.
Bottle Trees in the South
The bottle tree has long been part of southern history and literature. Eudora Welty, Mississippi author, documents the existence of bottle trees in detailed descriptions in several of her short stories. Mississippi garden writer, Felder Rushing, travels to speaking engagements and book signings in his pick-up truck with bottle trees tucked into the truck garden of the back bed.
According to folklore trees with leaves of cobalt blue glass were anchored outdoors nearby the house to catch "haints" and evil spirits prowling after dark. At dusk spirits enter the bottle but cannot escape. In the morning the sunlight heats the bottle and vaporizes the spirits. Some folks claim to hear the spirits groaning when wind blows over the bottles and through the trees. Some people would cork the bottles in the morning and send them floating down the river never to return with evil.
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