Motif
sacred or animate tree and plant embodiment
sacred_or_animate_tree_and_plant_embodiment
A motif of the World Axis and Sacred Center family, within the sub-family Divinized, Animate, and Wonder-Working Trees. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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1 traditions
comparative
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The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2) The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2) / CONTENTS / NOTE. OFFERINGS OF FIRST-FRUITS. / INDEX.; lines 8868-9090 confidence: medium
Index entries for Australian groups and Austria include charms for staying the sun, attacking red dust columns, fear of women’s blood, annual expulsion of ghosts, medicine-man recall of the soul, Wotjobaluk rain-making, lulling the wind, and souls of trees.
The index lists souls of trees, refusal to fell trees, sacred hack-thorn, birch-tree dressed in women’s clothes, trees planted at births, oak, and mistletoe connected with Balder’s life.
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