[367] Op. cit. p. 228.
[368] "Trees of great size and age are worshipped in almost every village in Japan. They are girt with honorary cinctures of straw-rope and have tiny shrines erected before them."—Dr. Aston's Shinto, p. 45. See also W. W. Skeat's Malay Magic, p. 67.
[369] County Folk-lore, vol. v.: Lincolnshire (David Nutt, 1908).
[370] County Folk-lore, vol. ii.: North Riding of Yorkshire, p. 54.
[371] Folk-lore Journal, vol. i. (1883), p. 377. For tree-worship in Tuscany see Dr. J. G. Frazer's article in Folk-lore, Dec. 1901.
[372] Frazer's Golden Bough (2nd ed.), vol. i. pp. 173-4. For Dr. Frazer's admirable discussion of the whole subject see especially vol. i. pp. 166-232, and vol. iii. pp. 26 seq. See also Grant Allen's Evolution of the Idea of God, pp. 138 seq.; Philpot's The Sacred Tree, passim; Maspero's Dawn of Civilisation (4th ed.), pp. 121-2; H. M. Bower's The Elevation and Procession of the Ceri at Gubbio (David Nutt, 1897), pp. 61, 70 seq., 85 seq., 93 and passim; Griffis's The Religions of Japan (4th ed.), pp. 30 seq.; Ferguson's Tree and Serpent Worship, passim; W. W. Skeat's Malay Magic, pp. 52 seq., 63 seq., 193 seq., 203 seq.; Reinach's Orpheus (Eng. tr. 1909), pp. 114, 129.
[373] Philpot's The Sacred Tree (Macmillan & Co., 1897), p. 15.
[374] As for example in Kansu. For Kiangsu see J.R.A.S. (China Branch), vol. xxxiv. (1901-2), p. 116. For observations on Chinese tree-spirits see De Groot's Religious System of China, vol. iv. pp. 272 seq. and vol. v. pp. 653-63; and see Folk-lore, June 1906, p. 190; and Dennys's Folk-lore of China, p. 47.
[375] The Sophora japonica.