Burning incense and birch branches prevent the Lidérc from entering one's dwelling.
We roasted and smacked each other with birch branches, and fell into a clean country sleep.
Another wall is covered in birch branches, and the lighting achieves a well-calibrated dimness that makes everybody look good.
He brooded, watching the birch branches swaying in the breeze.
In spring he would make his svirel of birch branches.
I entered with a rush to find a bower of birch branches had been erected in the center of the grove.
The attendant had also passed along a small film cassette that his contact had handed over with the birch branches.
An iron bed cast to resemble birch branches.
The birch branches are replaced with a whip in some representations.
The penitents were scourging themselves with birch branches, making themselves bleed.