 The trunk and branches are covered with hundreds of coins which have been driven through the bark and into the wood.The local tradition is that a wish will be granted for each of the coins so treated.Folklorist Ceri Houlbrook observed actions at a coin tree in Aira Force, Cumbria, noting that a succession of at least twelve families passed by the site and decided to hammer coins into it using a piece of limestone lying around; she commented that this custom appeared to offer "little variation