The Sacred Tree; or, the tree in religion and myth

part in the religion of the Mycenaean period about 1500 B.C.[37] The

persistent belief of the Greek and Roman peasantry in the existence and power of the various woodland spirits is also vitally connected with the primitive idea of the tree-soul.

In the centre of Europe, covered as it once was with dense forest, the veneration of the tree tinctured all the religious usages of ...