[Illustration: ] [Illustration: Sacred tree with its supporters, from St Mark’s, Venice.] THE SACRED TREE OR THE TREE IN RELIGION AND MYTH BY MRS. J. H. PHILPOT [Illustration: ] _London_ MACMILLAN AND CO., Limited NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1897 _All rights reserved_ PREFACE The reader is requested to bear in mind that this volume lays no claim to scholarship, independent research, or originality of view. Its aim has been to select and collate, from sources not always easily accessible to the general reader, certain facts and conclusions bearing upon a subject of acknowledged interest. In so dealing with one of the many modes of primitive religion, it is perhaps inevitable that the writ…
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