Apple Tree Man - Devana

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Apple Tree Man is a variegated brown-red-yellow colourway, inspired by the harvest and autumn. In English folklore, the Apple Tree Man is the name given to the spirit of the oldest apple tree in an orchard, and in whom the fertility of the orchard is thought to reside. Tales about the Apple Tree Man were collected by the folklorist Ruth Tongue in the cider-producing county of Somerset. In one story, a man offers his last mug of mulled cider to the trees in his orchard on Christmas Eve (a reflection of the custom and ritual of apple wassailing). He is rewarded by the Apple Tree Man, who reveals to him the location of buried gold, more than enough to pay his rent. Show more