Some ideas on the Paw-Paw Stob (Stake, Chevillage -Asimina triloba)

The Paw - Paw tree (Asimina triloba) is one of the trees of the South Eastern U.S.'s , "Man in Black" "Slender-Man", "The Black Horse-rider at the Crossroads", a.k.a. "Little funny boy ('Dog-Paw') .  It gathers many 'northern' winter spirits.  The tree's animals are the American Opossum ('possum - Didelphis virginiana) , White Tailed Deer ( Odocoileus virginianus),  the Red Fox (Vulpes vulpes) and the native U.S. Gray Fox ( Urocyon cinereoargenteus).  The Persimmon tree is the lesser power (Diospyros virginiana ), but of similar substance/usage.  Four quadruple stobs buried at the (four way) crossroads or three-way forked crossroads, at 'special hours' will call 'HIM' continuously, until the stobs rot.  If you choose an art(e) to master, successive trips to the crossroads are required and the 'instrument' of mastery.  In Germanic and Scandinavian lore, wine buried at the crossroads for a year, was believed to impart unusual mental fortitude and physical strength.  The Redbud/Judas Tree (Cercis Canadensis) has similar connotations, but somewhat different as it 'attracts many' and not the 'few'.