As Morgan Daimler had already discovered, there’s no record of the phrase “oak, ash, and thorn” before Rudyard Kipling. Specifically, they show up in his books Puck of Pook’s Hill and Rewards and Fairies, wielded by the clever hands of one Mr. Robin Goodfellow. “Oh,” I muttered, learning this. “Oh, you clever sneak.”
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