[370] Ibid.
[371] Folklore, XXIX., i., p. 182.
[372] Curious Myths of the Middle Ages.
[373] Jupiter is said to have been suckled by a goat.
[374] The Sanscrit for palm is toddy—whence the drink of that name.
[375] Proc. of Royal Irish Acad., xxxiv., C., 3, 4.
[376] Book IV., 33.
[377] Maundeville, in his Travels, mentions that near Hebron, “a sacerdotal city, that is a sanctuary on the Mount of Mamre, is an oak tree which the Saracens call dirpe, which is of Abraham’s time, and people called it the dry tree. They say that it has been there since the beginning of the world, and that it was once green and bore leaves, till the time that our Lord died on the cross, and then it died, and so did all the trees that were then in the world.”—Travels in the East, p. 162.
[378] Gen. xxiii.
[379] History, v., 2.