[34] Strange Survivals, p. 120 et seq.
[35] Golden Bough, iii. 248.
[36] The Testimony of Tradition.
[37] Hibbert Lectures, p. 516; Dawn of Astronomy, p. 215.
[38] Ethnology in Folklore, pp. 32 and 163.
[39] A Book of Brittany.
[40] These “pardons” run strangely parallel with the “Feast Days” in E. and W. Penrith, in Cornwall, where of 26 feasts, 13 occur around the chief days of the May year.
CHAPTER XX
SACRED TREES
The subject of tree-worship is a vast one, as anyone may gather who will read the Golden Bough. Fortunately for my readers it is not necessary to discuss the whole or even any great part of it in connection with the inquiry which now concerns us. I may say that only rarely is the old tree-worship considered with its concomitant of temple-worship, so that I now have to bring together information widely separated because the connection which I have to show was intimate has not been enlarged upon; indeed, in many cases it has not been suspected.