Severus and his mother had always made wooden decorations for their tree every year. Eileen Snape had always found some kind of tree for her son to decorate, he did not know how she did it but there was always a tree. They would carve or burn sacred designs into wooden circles. Celtic knots, the Tribeca and crows for the Lady Morrighan. As well as symbols of the Sun God Lugh and Cernunnos God of animals, fertility and wild places, they hung the circles on the branches of their tree with string. On the kitchen table, there would be white tapers wreathed in evergreen leaves or holly if they were lucky enough to have some.