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The Folk-lore of Plants
·
T. F. Thiselton-Dyer
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"Spirit
they
owned
not,
Sense
they
had
not,
Blood
nor
vigour,
Nor
colour
fair.
Spirit
gave
Odhinn,
Thought
gave
Hoenir,
Blood
gave
Lodr
And
colour
fair."
This
notion
of
tree-descent
appears
to
have
been
popularly
believed
in
olden
days
in
Italy
and
Greece,
illustrations
of
which
occur
in
the
literature
of
that
period.
Thus
Virgil
writes
in
the
AEneid[7]:
"These
woods
were
first
the
seat
of
sylvan
powers,
Of
nymphs
and
fauns,
and
savage
men
who
took
Their
birth
from
trunks
of
trees
and
stubborn
oak."
Romulus
and
Remus
had
been
found
under
the
famous
Ficus
Ruminalis,
which
seems
to
suggest
a
connection
with
a
tree
parentage.
It
is
true,
as
Mr.
Keary
remarks,[8]
that,
"in
the
legend
which
we
have
received
it
is
in
this
instance
only
a
case
of
finding;
but
if
we
could
go
back
to
an
earlier
tradition,
we
should
probably
see
that
the
relation
between
the
mythical
times
and
the
tree
had
been
more
intimate."
Juvenal,
it
may
be
remembered,
gives
a
further
allusion
to
tree
descent
in
his
sixth
satire[9]:
"For
when
the
world
was
new,
the
race
that
broke
Unfathered,
from
the
soil
or
opening
oak,
Lived
most
unlike
the
men
of
later
times."
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