The city eventually chopped down the tree that year ahead of May Day celebrations and used the wood for a maypole, to add insult to injury. The witches are said to have cursed the city in ...

Hogmanay is the time to drive away witches ... tree wi its airm across the door’. Although it meted out the direst misfortune to a foolish miscreant that felled a rowan, using some of its wood ...

We discover that the White Witch has cast a spell to make it ... that would topple her cruel reign. Those frozen trees aren't the only woods to feature in the Narnia universe.