girt with ropes of straw on Christmas Eve in Germany, ii. 17;
fear to fell, ii. 19;
threatened to make them bear fruit, ii. 20-22, x. 114;
barren women fertilized by, ii. 56 sq., 344;
worshippers of Osiris forbidden to injure, vi. 111;
Dionysus a god of, vii. 3 sq.;
bound with Yule straw, vii. 301;
presided over by dead chiefs, viii. 125;
wrapt in straw during the Twelve Nights as a precaution against evil spirits, ix. 164;
fire applied to, on Eve of Twelfth Night, ix. 317;