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Felder Rushing According to bottle-tree lore, blue bottles, like these on a tree in Tennessee, are believed to work best at trapping evil spirits, also called 'haints,' says Mr. Rushing, the author.
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Still, he was tickled when the bottle tree's manufacturer, Dudley Pleasants , entertained him with bottle-tree lore and performed his "Delta Blues" blessing on the tree when he picked it up.
Bottle Trees Join Grand Tradition of Pink Flamingos, Garden Gnomes Gwendolyn Bounds 2011
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Thanks for the bottle-tree mention (the link is not quite right, but I appreciate the thought), and I look forward to seeing what else you guys come up with.
The Patio That Jack Built. The Curious Holts 2009
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Is not the land of the banana, the palm and the cedar, entitled to recognition, as well as the land of the gidyea, the boree, and the bottle-tree?
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The bottle-tree (Delabechea) grew more gregariously than we had ever seen it, in the stony banks of the channel of the torrent from the hills.
Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia 2003
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Is not the land of the banana, the palm and the cedar, entitled to recognition, as well as the land of the gidyea, the boree, and the bottle-tree?
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In that of Adelaide we see the Australian bottle-tree, which is a native of this country only.
Foot-prints of Travel or, Journeyings in Many Lands Maturin Murray Ballou 1857
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I walked across it, in order to ascertain the presence of water, but found nothing but deep dry hollows surrounded with drooping tea trees, and the black basaltic rocks covered with wild bottle-tree scrub.
Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845 Ludwig Leichhardt 1830
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The bottle-tree (Delabechea) grew more gregariously than we had ever seen it, in the stony banks of the channel of the torrent from the hills.
Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia Thomas Mitchell 1823
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