Black silhouette design of a tree of life inside a circular Celtic knotwork border, with two ravens on a branch and a horse and rider figure.

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Tree of life with ravens and Celtic knotwork

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A black silhouette of a tree of life fills a circle of interlaced Celtic knotwork. Two ravens perch on a branch to the right, and a stylised horse with a rider sits in the left half, with a spiral motif in the trunk. The design is rendered in solid black on a pale grey-green background with no shading.

Tree of life Celtic knot Raven Crow Horse Spiral Branch Knotwork Circle

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Tam had been told twice that the mare would not go past the ash at Hollin Cross, and twice he had laughed, because she was only ever stubborn about gates. This morning she planted her hooves at the tree and would not lift one. Above them two crows sat on the lowest branch like magistrates, one shifting its weight, the other watching the pocket of his coat where the bread was.

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Old Marjorie Stott had come down off the fell at first light with the warning. She said the ash was no ash at all but the tree the ravens had kept since before the parish had a name, and its roots ran down under the bog to a well where a rider once went to bargain for a son. "Carry the letter to Keld Farm," she had said, pressing it into his hand, "and do not stop for anyone who asks you the time."

Tam climbed down, took the bread from his pocket and set it on the flat stone beneath the roots, the way his grandmother had done for the dead. The nearer crow hopped down, took a crust, and considered him with one bright eye. The mare shook her mane and walked on at once, easily, past the tree as if it had never been there.

Keld Farm was empty when he reached it. The door stood open, the hearth was cold, and on the table lay a second letter in Marjorie's hand, addressed to him and dated the day he was born. He read it standing up, then looked out at the wall where the birds had followed him. There were two of them. There had always been two.