Down the centuries from the Druid tree-worship comes the spell of the walnut-tree.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of Hallowe'en] Reference

Before leaving the Continental historians, reference may be made to the abundant evidence of Germanic tree-worship to be gathered from them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Edda, Volume 1 The Divine Mythology of the North, Popular Studies in Mythology, Romance, and Folklore, No. 12] Reference

Many factors played a part in the development of tree-worship but it is probable the origin of the sacredness of trees must be assigned to the fact that it was acquired from the incense and the aromatic woods which were credited with the power of animating the dead.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Evolution of the Dragon] Reference

Yes, there is a good deal to be said in behalf of tree-worship; and when.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Rivers; a book of essays in profitable idleness] Reference

Proofs of the prevalence of tree-worship in ancient Greece and Italy are abundant.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion] Reference

If its inanimate forms were personified and worshipped, why not animals and plants -- e.g. tree-worship?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery] Reference

However that may be, tree-worship is well attested for all the great European families of the Aryan stock.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion] Reference

Ptolemaic monks in, 1123; specialized gods in, 666; sun-cult of, 712; tree-worship in, 281; unlucky days in, 611.    From Wordnik.com.  [Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV] Reference

It was very instructive -- about sun-myths and bronzes and the growth of the epic, you know, and tree-worship and moon-goddesses.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking] Reference

Sacred groves were common among the ancient Germans, and tree-worship is hardly extinct amongst their descendants at the present day.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion] Reference

Dionysus connects itself, not with tree-worship only, but also with ancient water-worship, the worship of the spiritual forms of springs and streams.    From Wordnik.com.  [Greek Studies: a Series of Essays] Reference

The Druids 'tree-worship is identical with that of the Chaldeans -- those pagan groves, you know, which the Jews were always being punished for building.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Damnation of Theron Ware] Reference

But it is, I think, worth preserving, since it is the only narrative I know of dealing with that rare and curious subject, the survival of tree-worship in our own country.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dead Man's Plack and an Old Thorn] Reference

The use of wickerwork, and the suggestion that the rite was for purifying the land, indicates a combination of the ideas of tree-worship with those of early agricultural life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Celtic Religion in Pre-Christian Times] Reference

What has surprised me is that a form of tree-worship is still found existing among a few of the inhabitants in some of the small rustic villages in out-of-the-world districts in England.    From Wordnik.com.  [Far Away and Long Ago] Reference

'Asherim,' -- that is, trees or wooden poles, survivals of ancient stone - or tree-worship; 'sun-images,' -- that is, probably, pillars consecrated to Baal as sun-god, were all swept away.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes] Reference

We shall seek, therefore, for the origin of tree-worship not in the character of the tree, but in that of the primitive mind which deifies mountains, waters, and trees, irrespective of their nature.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow] Reference

The fact has been ascertained that in Arabia, in very ancient times, there was a goddess named Azra who was worshipped under the form of a tree called Samurch, and that in Yemen tree-worship still prevails.    From Wordnik.com.  [The God-Idea of the Ancients] Reference

He said: "The curious thing about Frazer's book is, that in illustrating the old religious usages connected with tree-worship and so on, he throws light upon every dogma of Christianity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Private Life of Henry Maitland]

I can so well understand tree-worship.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fantasia of the Unconscious] Reference

In both continents we find tree-worship.    From Wordnik.com.  [Atlantis : the antediluvian world] Reference

I come so well to understand tree-worship.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fantasia of the Unconscious] Reference

Kumaso, and Tsuchi-gumo in Bungo; tree-worship.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era] Reference

Coalescence of, with tree-worship, 273; definition of, 463, 520 f.    From Wordnik.com.  [Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV] Reference