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.