Quite a strange custom. A story I was once told: if you want to get rid of an illness, you symbolically give it to a dead tree with a coin.
It doesn't matter to the tree (it's already dead)
But if someone else pulls out a coin and pockets it, the tree will pass this disease back to the "puller."
Nasty, right? 🤷

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Amanda And Arron Williams

February 23, 2025

There is a couple of these money stumps alot this route I had never seen them before until today

Der Axel

June 21, 2024

I'm surprised no one has plundered the trees yet.

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Location: Winsford, West Somerset District, Somerset, South West England, England, United Kingdom

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