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The Folk-lore of Plants
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T. F. Thiselton-Dyer
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"Jove's
own
tree,
High
as
his
topmost
boughs
to
heaven
ascend,
So
low
his
roots
to
hell's
dominions
tend."
As
already
mentioned,
numerous
legendary
stories
have
become
interwoven
with
the
myth
of
the
Yggdrasil,
the
following
sacred
one
combining
the
idea
of
tree-descent.
According
to
a
trouvere
of
the
thirteenth
century,[17]
"The
tree
of
life
was,
a
thousand
years
after
the
sin
of
the
first
man,
transplanted
from
the
Garden
of
Eden
to
the
Garden
of
Abraham,
and
an
angel
came
from
heaven
to
tell
the
patriarch
that
upon
this
tree
should
hang
the
freedom
of
mankind.
But
first
from
the
same
tree
of
life
Jesus
should
be
born,
and
in
the
following
wise.
First
was
to
be
born
a
knight,
Fanouel,
who,
through
the
scent
merely
of
the
flower
of
that
living
tree,
should
be
engendered
in
the
womb
of
a
virgin;
and
this
knight
again,
without
knowing
woman,
should
give
birth
to
St.
Anne,
the
mother
of
the
Virgin
Mary.
Both
these
wonders
fell
out
as
they
were
foretold.
A
virgin
bore
Fanouel
by
smelling
the
tree;
and
Fanouel
having
once
come
unawares
to
that
tree
of
life,
and
cut
a
fruit
from
it,
wiped
his
knife
against
his
thigh,
in
which
he
inflicted
a
slight
wound,
and
thus
let
in
some
of
the
juice.
Presently
his
thigh
began
to
swell,
and
eventually
St.
Anne
was
born
therefrom."
But
turning
to
survivals
of
this
form
of
animism
among
uncultured
tribes,
we
may
quote
the
Damaras,
a
South
African
race,
with
whom
"a
tree
is
supposed
to
be
the
universal
progenitor,
two
of
which
divide
the
honour."[18]
According
to
their
creed,
"In
the
beginning
of
things
there
was
a
tree,
and
out
of
this
tree
came
Damaras,
bushmen,
oxen,
and
zebras.
The
Damaras
lit
a
fire
which
frightened
away
the
bushmen
and
the
oxen,
but
the
zebras
remained."
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