sacred, of old Prussians, ix. 391;

associated with thunder, x. 145;

the principal sacred tree of the Aryans, xi. 89 sq.;

human representatives of the oak perhaps originally burnt at the fire-festivals, xi. 90, 92 sq.;

children passed through a cleft oak as a cure for rupture or rickets, xi. 170 sqq.;

life of, in mistletoe, xi. 280, 292;

supposed to bloom on Midsummer Eve, xi. 292, 293;

struck by lightning oftener than any other tree of the European forest, xi. 298 sqq.

See also [Oak-tree] and [Oaks]

Oak of Errol, fate of the Hays bound up with the, xi. 283 sq.