Black trees

[abunasir]

Hey, guys!

I'd like your inputs on this: what's the connection between isolated black trees on an dry land and demons?

I've seeing this on many books, but don't truly understand what's the real meaning of it.

Books that present this representation: Demons of Magick, Demons of Empowered Magick, Magickal Attack, Goetia Pathworking, Lucifer and the Hidden Demons.

 

[Morell]

I have to ask, because I don't know myself. What is meant by Black trees? Dead trees? Struck by lightening? Some specific kind?

 

[Lurking Magician]

If by black trees you mean trees with black bark or black fruits/berries, in Etruscan and Greek tradition, then Roman, they were related to chtonic gods, which by their connections to the Underworld became connected to malevolent entities, then may have evolved in demons.

Dead trees, as above, cthonic to malevolent to demons.

Trees struck by lightning may be considered cursed, since a god had decided to struck it with a lightning (in ancient Greece and if I remember well also in Rome, people killed by lightning couldn't be ritually buried because they were considered - justly - killed by a God, Zeus/Iupiter). Cursed to malevolent to demons.

 

[abunasir]

If by black trees you mean trees with black bark or black fruits/berries, in Etruscan and Greek tradition, then Roman, they were related to chtonic gods, which by their connections to the Underworld became connected to malevolent entities, then may have evolved in demons.

Dead trees, as above, cthonic to malevolent to demons.

Trees struck by lightning may be considered cursed, since a god had decided to struck it with a lightning (in ancient Greece and if I remember well also in Rome, people killed by lightning couldn't be ritually buried because they were considered - justly - killed by a God, Zeus/Iupiter). Cursed to malevolent to demons.

Some examples.

Besides that, the pathworking to Lucifer presented in Lucifer and the Hidden Demons:

"You stand in a rock-strewn desert.
There are mountains on the horizon.
You stand at the base of the mountains.
There, a black tree, its bark scorched."

 

[Keldan]

I'd like your inputs on this: what's the connection between isolated black trees on an dry land and demons?

Zero connection.

 

[Lucien6493]

Seriously? If you are going to write a book with a demon in it, you just gotta have a dead tree. I mean, nothing says "demons" like flowering orchids and smiling, pretty pink dolphins under a lavender-tinted sky raining rose petals. It's called a trope. Nothing makes edge-lords feel all safe and snuggly quite like a couple of pretty trees suffering heat stress under a glowering sky. Sananda forbid a garden variety fiend would ever show up on Fifth Avenue in broad daylight. It's against union rules. Ironically perhaps...the real devils walk down the street right beside us and they are so ordinary we don't see them because we are too busy harrowing hell.