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Yews (taxus bacata) are generally found in churchyards as the yew was a pagan meeting place -signifier of life and death for one- and so, to convert pagans to christianity they put a church by the yew to ease the conversion process

 

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The scent of Hawthorn blossom is the same the first scent a decaying human corpse gives off.

 

Apparently, not sniffed many corpses!

 

That is why it is unlucky to have Hawthorn blossom in the house.

 

Is this true! My favourite smell of all time. Conjures up late spring days, first really warm sun, hawthorn flies, meadows.

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