The Sacred Tree
by Mrs. J. H. Philpot
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About this eBook
- Author
- Philpot, J. H., Mrs.
- Title
- The Sacred Tree; or, the tree in religion and myth
- Credits
- Produced by Shaun Pinder, Stephen Hutcheson, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- BL: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Religion: General, Miscellaneous and Atheism
- Subject
- Tree worship
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 47215
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/47215
- Release Date
- October 28, 2014
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.THE SACRED TREE OR THE TREE IN RELIGION AND MYTH
- 2.PREFACE
- 3.CONTENTS
- 4.ILLUSTRATIONS
- 5.CHAPTER I TREE-WORSHIP—ITS DISTRIBUTION AND ORIGIN
- 6.CHAPTER II THE GOD AND THE TREE
- 7.CHAPTER III WOOD-DEMONS AND TREE-SPIRITS
- 8.CHAPTER IV THE TREE IN ITS RELATION TO HUMAN LIFE
- 9.CHAPTER V THE TREE AS ORACLE
- 10.CHAPTER VI THE UNIVERSE-TREE
- 11.CHAPTER VII PARADISE
- 12.CHAPTER VIII MAY CELEBRATIONS
- 13.CHAPTER IX CHRISTMAS OBSERVANCES
- 14.FOOTNOTES
- 15.INDEX
- 16.Transcriber’s Notes
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