The name is from an excerpt from The Bard's Path - Tree Legends, Lore and Whimsy, Part One: Fairies, healing and general folklore. by Randi Hendrickson.
"In England, Oakmen, who are described as squat dwarfish people with red toadstool caps are the guardians of animals and are believed to tempt intruders into their wood with disguised food made from fungi. The woods where they live is a thrice-cut coppice (grown from fallen or cut trees rather than seed) and is full of bluebells. An oak coppice was often considered an evil and dangerous place to travel through at night, especially if it was a blue-bell wood. Why such a place is considered to be so malevolent may be explained by the following rhyme:
Ellum do grieve,
Oak he do hate,
Willow do walk
If you travels late.
Since the oak had a god-like status, and it has the ability to grow back from the roots of stumps, it was believed that the oak bitterly resented being cut. Because of the elm's (ellum) tendency towards death from disease it was believed that neighboring elms died from grief. The willow is a more sinister tree in that it had the habit of uprooting itself at night and following lone travellors, muttering."
Did we mention this cache is only accessible from Dawn to Dusk? Safe Travels!
Congratulations to Msmit002, LAXCheezit and 923Willow on their surprise FTF in Chestertown. We see these names a lot in Annapolis and the surrounding area and we're glad you made the trip over to the Shore.