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A naturally pleached tree trunk, i.e. two plant stems joined together into one. This is sycamore but there's wind pleached oak in the same wood, and I've seen beech elsewhere. Also human laid hedges of coppiced hazel that have grown into living wooden walls, and lime pollards in a row with pleached branches.

British folklore claims that whatever passes through such a hole in a tree will be healed: ambiguous liminal space, simultaneously inside and outside the tree and the world, can intentionally be passed through safely by a person but their dis-ease can't follow and remains at the threshold.

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