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The Folk-lore of Plants
·
T. F. Thiselton-Dyer
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12.
"Primitive
Belief,"
p.
65.
13.
Grimm's
"Teutonic
Mythology,"
i.
69.
14.
Quarterly
Review,
1863,
cxiv.
214-15.
15.
See
Bunsen's
"The
Keys
of
St
Peter,"
&c.,
1867,
p.
414.
16.
"Teutonic
Mythology."
17.
Quoted
by
Mr.
Keary
from
Leroux
de
Lincy,
"Le
Livre
des
Légendes,"
p.
24.
18.
Gallon's
"South
Africa,"
p.
188.
19.
"Primitive
Superstitions,"
p.
289.
20.
Folkard's
"Plant
Lore,"
p.
311.
21.
"Indo-European
Folk-lore,"
p.
92.
22.
Grimm's
"Teutonic
Mythology,"
ii.
672-3.
CHAPTER
III.
PLANT-WORSHIP.
A
form
of
religion
which
seems
to
have
been
widely-distributed
amongst
most
races
of
mankind
at
a
certain
stage
of
their
mental
culture
is
plant-worship.
Hence
it
holds
a
prominent
place
in
the
history
of
primitive
belief,
and
at
the
present
day
prevails
largely
among
rude
and
uncivilised
races,
survivals
of
which
even
linger
on
in
our
own
country.
To
trace
back
the
history
of
plant-worship
would
necessitate
an
inquiry
into
the
origin
and
development
of
the
nature-worshipping
phase
of
religious
belief.
Such
a
subject
of
research
would
introduce
us
to
those
pre-historic
days
when
human
intelligence
had
succeeded
only
in
selecting
for
worship
the
grand
and
imposing
objects
of
sight
and
sense.
Hence,
as
Mr.
Keary
observes,[1]
"The
gods
of
the
early
world
are
the
rock
and
the
mountain,
the
tree,
the
river,
the
sea;"
and
Mr.
Fergusson[2]
is
of
opinion
that
tree-worship,
in
association
with
serpent-worship,
must
be
reckoned
as
the
primitive
faith
of
mankind.
In
the
previous
chapter
we
have
already
pointed
out
how
the
animistic
theory
which
invested
the
tree
and
grove
with
a
conscious
personality
accounts
for
much
of
the
worship
and
homage
originally
ascribed
to
them--identified,
too,
as
they
were
later
on,
with
the
habitations
of
certain
spirits.
Whether
viewed,
therefore,
in
the
light
of
past
or
modern
inquiry,
we
find
scattered
throughout
most
countries
various
phases
of
plant-worship,
a
striking
proof
of
its
universality
in
days
gone
by.[3]
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