奇形怪狀的銅錢樹

Money Trees
銅錢樹

As perhaps a companion piece to last week’s skull nickels, here’s yet another thing I had no idea existed.
今天要給大家介紹一種“銅錢樹”， 在此之前我對它的存在一無所知，簡直可以稱為上周 “頭骨鎳幣”的姊妹篇了。

嵌滿了硬幣的樹樁

Apparently in several wooded areas around the UK, passersby have been stopping for decades (if not centuries), meticulously hammering small denomination coins intro trees.
銅錢樹生長在英國的一些林區(qū)，幾十年來（如果沒有上百年的話）行人路過這里，都會小心翼翼的將小面額的硬幣敲到樹里。

硬幣沿著樹的紋理嵌入

Most of the trees seem to be in and around Cumbria and Portmeirion, and I didn’t find a single example of a tree like this located outside the UK.
大部分的銅錢樹生長在坎布里亞郡和波特梅里恩郡周圍，我也從來沒有在英國以外的其他地方看到過這種樹。

硬幣的年份面額依然可見

According to this recent article by the BBC, the practice might date back to the early 1700s in Scotland where ill people stuck florins into trees with the idea that the tree would take away their sickness.
據BBC一篇近期的文章報道，這一習俗可以追溯到18世紀初期的蘇格蘭。當人們生病的時候，會將弗羅林幣塞進樹縫里，認為這樣樹就能帶走他們的病痛。

像刺猬的銅錢樹

The practice seems akin to love padlocks or Americans collaborative effort of sticking their nasty ass gum all over everything.
這個習俗和同心鎖的風俗類似，也還蠻像美國人民上下一心到處惹麻煩招人嫌的習慣。

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