The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 11 of 12)

by James George Frazer

venerated by the Ainos of Japan, [79];

growing on willow specially efficacious, [79];

confers invulnerability, [79] sq.;

its position as a parasite on a tree the source of superstitions about it, [80], [81], [84];

not to be cut but shot or knocked down with stones, [81] sq.;

in the folk-lore of modern European peasants, [81] sqq.;

medical virtues ascribed to, [82] sqq.;

these virtues a pure superstition, [84];

cut when the sun is in Sagittarius, [82], [86];

growing on oak a panacea for green wounds, [83];