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Old Belief
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Three small silver coins and a scatter of salt and grain on a folded white cloth, laid on the sawn top of a weathered stump in dark forest

the gift on the stump

Payment, not worship: something small left at the edge of the ground you are about to take from.

Basis: Recorded forest offering practice · AI-generated

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