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- Rowan helps Thor out of river. A2711.5
- Magic ash tree (quicken, rowan). D950.6
- Ash (quicken, rowan) used (by druids) for divinations. D1311.4.1.1
- Ash (quicken, rowan) protects against spells and enchantment. (Cf. D950.6, D1311.4.1.1.) D1385.2.5
- Hunting woman beaten with sticks of rowan-tree and ankles of corpse tied with branches of same tree. E442.1
- Rowan wood (quicken, etc.) protects against witches. G272.2.1
- Devil challenges boys to play a disc-game. Can be defeated only with rowan-sticks. (Cf. D950.9.) G303.9.9.9
- Devil overpowered or chased with a stick of rowan-tree. G303.16.14.3
- Why the devil fears the rowan-tree. G303.16.14.3.1
- Catching the devil. The devil is caught with the help of a sacred article (rosary, scapular) or some other thing (band for binding breeches, a switch of the rowan-tree). G303.16.19.18
- Oisin's poor diet in Patrick's house – pancake size of ivy leaf, measure of butter only size of rowan berry. Later Oisin gives Patrick quarter of a wild boar, servant ivy leaf and rowan berry. J1511.13