Beinn Eighe

"Loch Maree lies midway between Ullapool and the Kyle of Lochalsh in the Scottish Highlands. On it are numerous islands including Isle Maree, which is home to a most unusual oak tree. According to local superstition, if you tied a rag or ribbon to the tree and wished for good health, it would take away any ailments you had. Over time, rags became metal. By the time Queen Victoria visited in 1877, it had become the norm to push a copper coin into the trunk and by then the tree had become a wishing tree in a much wider sense. That tradition continues to this day, though the tree itself hasn’t fared so well, dying from copper poisoning many years ago. Similar wishing trees can be found elsewhere in the UK, for instance at Portmeirion in Wales and Ingleborough in Yorkshire."