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convulsively, and a pretty considerable approach will be gained to an idea of this plant, which, if Pythagoras had but known of ...

CHAPTER II. PRIMITIVE AND SAVAGE NOTIONS RESPECTING PLANTS The descent of the human race from a tree--however whimsical such a n ...

This notion of tree-descent appears to have been popularly believed in olden days in Italy and Greece, illustrations of which oc ...

Similarly we can understand the veneration bestowed on the forest tree from associations of this kind. Consequently, as it has b ...

"Jove's own tree, High as his topmost boughs to heaven ascend, So low his roots to hell's dominions tend." As already mentioned, ...

Meycapal, which caused the first trembling of the earth,[19] and from thence are descended the different nations of the world." ...

CHAPTER III. PLANT-WORSHIP. A form of religion which seems to have been widely-distributed amongst most races of mankind at a ce ...

which the comparative mythologist has, at different times, drawn opposite theories; but of this there can be no doubt, that plan ...

present German celebration in all families is "almost undoubtedly a remnant of the tree-worship of their ancestors." According t ...

the Vedic system which endowed all created things with a spirit and life--a doctrine which modern Hinduism largely extended[16]. ...

depart." Tree-worship too has been more or less prevalent among the American Indians, abundant illustrations of which have been ...

and flowers, within sight of the dying man, who is ordered to touch and dedicate to the evil spirit the wild flowers, rice, and ...

"Wassail the trees, that they may bear You many a plum and many a pear; For more or less fruit they will bring, As you do them w ...

CHAPTER IV. LIGHTNING PLANTS. Amongst the legends of the ancient world few subjects occupy a more prominent place than lightning ...

than a lightning god[3]--the trees naturally were incorporations,[4] "not only of the heavenly fire, but also of the soma, with ...

(Fraxinus excelsior), too, is a lightning plant, and, according to an old couplet: "Avoid an ash, It counts the flash." Another ...

she could assign was that Joe, "had helped Mr. Todd's gardener to cut down the old hawthorn tree on the lawn; and there's them t ...

to be very rare[8]. Speaking of the oak, it may be noted, that as sacred to Thor, it was under his immediate protection, and hen ...

notion, no doubt, being that the bird must return the mystic plant to the element from which it springs, that being either the w ...

fashioned charm for the bite of an adder was to place a cross formed of hazel-wood on the wound, and the burning of a thorn-bush ...