Ivy | Myth, Symbolism and Folklore of the Ivy (Gort)

[@jessicaanderson9551]

I read the notes!! Love your storytelling!!so glad I found your channel!!

[@TheStoryCrow]

😂 glad you made it here 🙏

[@brandyjean7015]

I read the description too.

[@chibip6]

Cosmic lady garden! 😂💕

[@TheStoryCrow]

Ahh, that’s what comes of writing descriptions at one am 😂 thanks for the tip 🙏☺️

[@johnpower-m5o]

Gort is the Irish Gaelic word for Ivy - Gort is also the word for field. In the Gaelic language, there are circa 70 words for field - each describing all the different varieties and types of field - each individual word, capturing their unique character. Gorteen for example: the small field.

[@ivywoodxrecords]

High eloquence my friend, this is awesome. I feel like the Celtic ancestors are around me recently Im not sure why. All the best.

[@TheStoryCrow]

Thank you kindly!

[@michelewhite36]

Have a wonderful trip to Morocco! I’m sure you will come back with many great stories to share. But first and foremost, enjoy yourself and take it all in.

[@TheStoryCrow]

Will do, thanks for the good wishes 🙏

[@FreeYourMind-e9h]

Thanks! Hope you all hang on to the farm. It provides many great settings for your videos and must nurture your soul. It seems like you know the land and the things that grow there so well. Have a great trip.

[@TheStoryCrow]

We will. Good things are coming. Thank you for the well wishes 🙏☺️

[@JennieJuniper]

Ivy has always been one of my all-time favourites, I've got it growing all over the inside of my house, and plenty outside too! What a fascinating treat to learn all about its folklore 🌿 Your videos are always so informative and pleasant to watch, thank you!!

[@TheStoryCrow]

Thanks Jennie 🙏😊

[@GramaSagefeather]

Beautiful creation myth and symbolism woven into this. Im learning so much from you. Thank you.

[@ShaunNicholson-q5g]

All right me old son.as a pagan I love the story's and folklore you're a great teller of stories . My house has ivy all over it looks better than brick 👍🇬🇧♥️

[@TheStoryCrow]

Good man 🌱👍

[@NellMckay]

That was fete! I was only thinking of Ivy today and it’s place in folklore, thank you for a wonderful video x

[@TheStoryCrow]

Funny how it works like that. Thanks for watching 🙏🌱

[@markdpricemusic1574]

Superb exploration of this wandering and ambiguous character. It is still is used for cough medicine and birds happily guzzle the berries but PLEASE FOLKS don't go lollipopping the stuff... its full of saponins which can make you seriously ill, Best left alone unless your Gran knows the secret fomula. Thanks again for you work, bon voyages and have fun in Morrocco... hope you encounter myterious Oud music and Sufi tales! M.

[@TheStoryCrow]

Oh I’m going sufi story hunting make no mistake 🐪 🌙

[@markdpricemusic1574]

Make sure you hit LIKE and leave a comment for the algos - it all helps build the channel.

[@TheStoryCrow]

Thank you 🙏 ✨😊

[@janinemeier7201]

I have been delighted to discover your lovely videos. Today, as a knitter, I was most distracted by your beautiful Fair Isle sweater. Very inspiring with it’s almost art deco pattern and colorway. Happy Trails ✨

[@TheStoryCrow]

Hey, thanks for watching ☺️ I do love that sweater (or jumper as we say over here) got it in a charity shop. Pure seventies vibes, but you’re right it does feel art deco 😅

[@anidiquaojala1804]

Another Great video ❣️ safe travels, I visit there in my dreams ✌️💚✨️

[@TheStoryCrow]

🙏✨

[@D-Pocalypse]

Another great video, my good sir. I really enjoy your style of storytelling. From the Big Island of Hawaii, waving my five... 👋

[@TheStoryCrow]

Woah. Hawaii. That’s a place I’d love to go to… thanks for watching!

[@Forestdrifter2233]

We have a ton of it in central Virginia. Some towns just about every mature tree has some growing on it. Very interesting to hear it’s story.

[@anapaulafaiasambrosio485]

Great video ❤ Ivy is also a great source of food for bees and birds in winter when food is hard to find, so only advantages to get one growing in your garden 😊

[@TheStoryCrow]

Very true! Thanks for the shout out for the little guys 🐝 🕷️ 🐞 🐦 🌳 🙏

[@TheStoryCrow]

Very true! Thanks for the shout out for the little guys 🐝 🕷️ 🐞 🐦 🌳 🙏

[@Eriugena8]

Great show, loved the previous horned god segment and how you survey the godscapes and nature

[@TheStoryCrow]

Godscapes… love that. Thank you 🙏✨

[@lb8012]

Beautiful. Thank you, these stores enriched some good memories of my grandmother- whose name was Ivy. 💚

[@drowsyZot]

Wonderful, that was fascinating! Always a joy to watch your videos!

[@TheStoryCrow]

Many thanks Zot! ☺️

[@SacredCrone]

I’m so sorry about your mom. I live in New England and the Ivy was removed from our house, and our family fell apart. Like you said,coincidence? Idk. Just found your channel and I’m absolutely entranced. Thank you so much. Not sure if you did a video about Dionysus yet, but I’d love it.

[@TheStoryCrow]

🙏 Welcome and thanks for the words. Yeah I should do a god of beasts and vines really. Coming 😆 🍷 🐬

[@BeatrixBetwixt]

Hoping the farm stays with you guys♥️🌿and have a wonderful trip!

[@TheStoryCrow]

It will 🙏✨

[@1607hannah1]

My engagement ring has ivy leaves decorating it. Originally it was oak leaves, but my partner asked the jeweller to change it. Knowing the symbolism now makes it feel even more special. Loved the video, it was so interesting.

[@TheStoryCrow]

That’s so lovely to hear. Yes oak seems more a stand-alone, and ivy more entwined souls. How thoughtful of your partner. Thanks for sharing and I wish you both much happiness ☺️✨🌱

[@Scyllamaelstrom]

Would you like to make a video about the Goddess Hekate? It would be a fascinating experience to listen to your words about its folklores and other equivalent energies and entities and representations. Sending love 💛

[@TheStoryCrow]

I’ll get round to her 🙏✨🧙

[@adriennewalker1715]

Very illuminating and enjoyable video - ☺️

[@TheStoryCrow]

Many thanks!

[@EcoPhyta]

Great video!

[@rosebraskett]

Lovely video! I'm over in USA and you're right it's viewed harshly here but I love it! The old vines provide so much support to the environment. Berries come when there is little other food for the birds and the flowers come before others to provide for the pollinators. ❤❤

[@TheStoryCrow]

They do, I forgot to talk about that. A much maligned plant! Thanks for the input 🙏

[@graziadeigatti]

Thanks! You give me a lot to reflect. Really inspirational ❤

[@sweetchariotengland]

This is fantastic content my dude

[@TheStoryCrow]

Cheers fella 🙏☺️

[@bethdickson1912]

Wonderful so glad i found you love the storytelling ❤

[@JesseP.Watson]

Hum. Farm lad eh. Aye. That's right. Hmm. You don't seem old enough to know all this. It amazes me that you can reel all that off as you do. I was once a farm lad from North Yorkshire Moors, in a van today, wintering in Pembrokeshire, a mile down the road from Pentra Ifan. I am tempted to ask if you need a hand keeping that farm of yours out of the hands of the bank. I would work for a story and dinner, for a month or two. Mmm, I think I would. But, I won't write that because this is KZbin comments and it is not the way things are done. Still, every time I watch one of your videos I am taken by an overwhelming urge to meet this man for the wyrding magic of these isles sparkles in his eyes it does! Mmm. 🐉 'Scuse me. A wanderer doth dream.

[@TheStoryCrow]

Ahhh, my dads from Yorkshire. Lively part of the world ☺️

[@clairehughes6280]

💙 Its a good offer that, you could destroy all the ivy before it kills all trees

[@JesseP.Watson]

@@clairehughes6280 Aye. Thing id though... Ivy's been around longer than we have, as have trees, so it would be a bit strange if they needed us to save them from it.

[@apcolleen]

Its very invasive in the south. It brought down a healthy small hickory blocking our driveway and I've seen it tear old garages down if its got enough water

[@eldraque4556]

fascinating, did not know the etymology of paradise or ecstasy

[@TheStoryCrow]

I love it when etymology informs our understanding of a word 😊

[@joandrummond524]

Thank upu once again enjoy your little holiday xx

[@TheStoryCrow]

Thank you 🙏🐪🌙

[@gerihuginn]

I really enjoy listening to your folktales. Keep up the good work. And have fun in Morocco. Try not to get your head cut off 😅😅

[@TheStoryCrow]

I’ll try, I guess … 😂🙏

[@adelsenouci8586]

Awaiting for the next video❤

[@garyjimbo7390]

delightful video, i really enjoy your style and pace! c: i promised myself i would get some ivy tattooed on my arm when i go three months without smoking weed (on day 3 as of writing this). i didn't know much about the symbolism behind ivy until watching your video, but judging from its meaning it seems i made the right choice! (especially where it will be around/alongside the snake i got after going 3mos without nicotine c: )

[@TheStoryCrow]

Ahhh the herb is always better when you go back to it after a good break. Good luck mate!

[@garyjimbo7390]

@@TheStoryCrow thanks! im hoping to quit the herb for good (pretty much squandered my early 20s being chronically high), but maybe once i get myself together and im in my 30s might partake the (very) occasional toke ☺️

[@sandrasims7569]

You probably get asked this all the time (please forgive if you have 🙏🙏🙏) but have you ever written (or have ) a book about all your stories? Your style of storytelling is so engaging (and at times very funny) and it’s lovely just to get lost in these ancient stories for a short time.🙂

[@TheStoryCrow]

You’re only about the fourth or fifth so I suppose I should 😅 Thank you for the kind words of support 🙏😊

[@LeftTurnOnly]

I really enjoyed the bit about the ivy growing on the Ash tree. I’m over near Boston (Worcester MA) and the previous owner of my property was a bit of an Arborist or “tree guy” for lack of a better word 😂 So he put in a row of Ash with ornamental Winter Creeper vine under each. I eradicated one and now the crown of that Ash outlasts that of the others twice as long! Just goes to show, the wrong “vine” can sap your energy and your Spirit! Luckily though, the Native Virginia Creeper Vine is growing up with the Ash now and not at its expense 😌 He might’ve had these Stories in mind as we have holly and English ivy present as well. However I’ve been introducing lots of Native Species to the area so as to let the local Ecosystem return and take care of herself 🌿💚🕊️ Great videos by the way!

[@TheStoryCrow]

True that. I love how the native plant are perfectly suited to each other, wherever we are. Thanks for watching and good luck with your trees 🌳 ✨🌱

[@lislelisle5453]

Sophia ❤❤❤❤

[@Heru1980]

I had an ivy houseplant for the past 6 years, it always did well. Then this winter is has dried up and died- I could find no reason why. Does ivy have a short life-span? How long does a single plant typically live? Love your channel, btw, and thanks for sharing the personal anecdote about your dad removing the ivy from the family farm. Sorry to hear of your mom's passing

[@TheStoryCrow]

I’m sorry to hear that. I couldn’t tell you I’m afraid. I know English ivy can live hundreds of years with a host tree. In a pot probably much less as it’s not doing its tree climbing thang? Never grown it as it grows absolutely everywhere where I live 😂

[@TheStoryCrow]

And thanks for your words 🙏

[@IosuamacaMhadaidh]

Cheers/diolch/slàinte!

[@TheStoryCrow]

🌱🙏

[@petersmedley459]

Just a thought, you raised it with interconnectivity, in the Norse Futhark the letter G is Gebo. It is associated with love and giving. We still use it, mostly without realising, as it is represented as our letter X-we put it in correspondence as kisses to show affection. This feels like a link to the way you talked about Gort perhaps?

[@TheStoryCrow]

That’s an interesting observation, especially as some people propose that the runic alphabet may have derived from the Eldar Futhorc or from proto runic. Even if you could not make a historic link, there’s arguably a symbolic one, like you point out. I often find imagery and meaning can resonate across cultures with apparantly different sets of symbols and myths. Thanks for commenting 🙏🌳

[@petersmedley459]

@@TheStoryCrow, I’m glad the idea piqued your curiosity. Thankyou for so generously sharing your gift of knowledge, storytelling and being inquisitive, it’s greatly appreciated. There’s also the strong possibility that it’s the equivalent of me looking at clouds and ‘seeing one that is dragonish’…!

[@TrystanStanzaniak]

funny, my name is tristan. great video

[@TheStoryCrow]

Strong name

[@alexhaywood9706]

Sorry to hear about your mother and the goings on of the farm you have in the family.

[@TheStoryCrow]

🙏

[@Simnadine]

Ivy is my plant ❤

[@dianetheone4059]

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

[@Mythsinger]

Your reference to Paradise as meaning a walled garden; I cannot find any references to where that came from. Can you let us know where your research got this reference as it's important to my storytelling to make sure I can defend the reference. Thanks.

[@TheStoryCrow]

From the Greek paredesios meaning a royal enclosed park and ultimately, I think, from Persian. Just googling paradise etymology that should give you what you’re after. Many Romance languages also have ‘pared’ for ‘wall’ ultimately deriving from the same word

[@Simnadine]

Holly and ivy yep

[@dismith73]

I read it

[@kam6657]

♾️

[@eldraque4556]

Sunyata and Annica are very important

[@TheStoryCrow]

They are! Thanks for sharing 🙏

[@CailinRuaAnChead]

Moved into a new house with my ex (we had been together 15 years and have a child, living as though we were married). Garden was covered in ivy. Ex insisted the ivy had to go, much to my protestations. Not two years later we split up. He was sacked/made redundant and now his mums partner is dying of cancer. Never stripping ivy again!

[@TheStoryCrow]

Well, I’m very sorry to hear that, of course, although it’s crazy how many anecdotal stories like that I hear

[@CailinRuaAnChead]

@@TheStoryCrow ah it was completely for the best, it was just over two years ago and never been happier! The ivy needed to come down because it was damaging the walls quite badly. Quite the metaphor I think. Pull down the ivy (break down the relationship) to save the structure of the house (to keep both of our sanities!)

[@elizabethflynn8455]

Check out Berber folklore when you are in Morocco.

[@TheStoryCrow]

Definately will be. Thanks 🙏 🐪🌙

[@alisongilbert1546]

In the ancient Romany tradition, the god Baccus was known as the 'spirit of the wind'.

[@TheStoryCrow]

After a night of heavy ale drinking followed by a kebab, I can understand why

[@alisongilbert1546]

@@TheStoryCrow 🤣🤣🤣

[@baronsamedi7304]

Que pasa

[@TheStoryCrow]

Todo bien senior sabado 💀

[@sylviabriggs4087]

Interesting , so the name poison ivy is unfounded,,

[@TheStoryCrow]

I believe that’s another species - native to the americas 🤷‍♂️

[@chibip6]

I’d much rather English ivy than poison ivy. (I have both in my yard unfortunately).

[@TheStoryCrow]

Don’t know much about the latter but I’m sure it has its place ☺️🙏🌱

[@grahamfleming8139]

Ailm Beith Coll Daoire Eadhon Fearna GORT gle mhath bhideo gle innteach.😅

[@gerieveen429]

Sorry to hear about the fate of your mother etc, i do not believe in coincidence, we are part of the land, it feeds us, and it will take us when we die.

[@lislelisle5453]

I have had this on my mind for YEARS. Jesus spat on the man's eyes, laid his hands on him, and asked if he could see. The man said he could see people, but they looked like trees walking????!!! So jesus wiped his eyes again then the blind man could see people, why did he see walking trees?? Hmmm This is so bothering "walking TREES" this is in the bible Mark, why walking tree's.

[@TheStoryCrow]

Thank you so much for reminding me of that bit of mark…. Druid of Galilee and his mossy hands 🧙🏾‍♀️ 🌴 🐪