[524]. Sil. Ital. Punica, iii. 675, 690. Harduin, Acta Conciliorum, vol. i. For further evidence as to Semitic tree-and-grove worship, see Movers, ‘Phönizier,’ vol. i. p. 560, &c.

[525]. Hunter, ‘Rural Bengal,’ pp. 131, 194.

[526]. Boehtlingk and Roth, s.v. ‘chaityataru.’ Ward, ‘Hindoos,’ vol. ii. p. 204.

[527]. Ovid. Metamm. viii. 741.

[528]. Cato de Re Rustica, 139; Plin. xvii. 47.

[529]. Hanusch, ‘Slaw. Myth.’ pp. 98, 229. Hartknoch, part i. ch. v. vii.; Grimm, ‘D. M.p. 67.

[530]. Maxim. Tyr. viii.; Plin. xvi. 95.

[531]. Tacit. Germania, 9, 39, &c.; Grimm, ‘D. M.p. 66.

[532]. Hyltén-Cavallius, ‘Wärend och Wirdarne,’ part i. p. 142.

[533]. Ralston, ‘Songs of Russian People,’ p. 153, see 238.