The Sacred Oak of Caries

An ancient oak tree spread so wide alone it seemed a standing forest and its trunk and branches held memorials as fillets tablets garlands witnessing how many prayers the goddess caries granted. The sister dreads grieving for their grove and what they lost put on their sable robes and hastened unto caries whom they prayed might rightly punish erisicthon's crime. By the gracious movement of her head she shook the fruitful cultivated fields then shook the fruitful crops to shake off his wicked hand. He turned the poised axe from the tree and clove his head shear from his body and again began to chop the hard oak from the heart of it these words were uttered covered by the