cobalt blue became the favored color, and the milk of magnesia bottles were most popular. Today, they're considered to be the crème de la crème of flea market finds for a bottle tree.

Welty's character Livvie "was familiar from the time she was born with the way bottle trees kept evil spirits from coming into the house - by luring them inside the colored bottles, where they ...

Adding to the legend and lore that surrounds the bottle tree are sound and color. Evil spirits could be heard inside the bottles when captured - which was, of course, the wind blowing through the ...

making it the largest bottle tree ever crafted in the United States. With these trees, the belief is that evil spirits are lured into the bottles because of their color and beauty, keeping harm ...