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Originally Posted by Little Firewall Went for a walk in Fairy Glen, Ross-shire and came across this fallen tree at a waterfall which folks have hammered coins into. Why? Don't ask me. Anyone seen this kind of thing before. From a distance I thought it was fungi. |
I would say it's been done as a wish for abundance & wealth. Long times past, people would leave things they wanted more of in trees. And, touching wood grounds the wish in the Earth, that's why, today, we say touch wood when we hope for something.