C Canaan, tree-worship in, 3, 8, 88; tree-oracles in, 95 Canute forbids tree-worship, 20 Carinthia, Green George of, 157 Cedar, the sacred, 7, 39, 40, 99, 95 Centaurs, the, 55, 56 Ceres, sacred grove of, 63 Chaldaea, cosmogony of, 113; demons of, 53; divination in, 105; illustrious mounds of, 112; oracles of, 95, 99; tree-worship in, 4, 6; world-tree of, 111 Charlemagne destroys the Irmensûl, 120 China, divination in, 105; legends of, 83; paradise legends of, 133; tree-worship in, 15; world-tree of, 118 Christmas observances, 162 _et seq._ Christmas-tree, introduction into England of, 165; origin in Germany of, 165 Churches, decoration of, at Christmas, 164 Circassia, pear-tree worshipped in, 153 Clymene, the daughters of, 78 Clytia, metamorphosis of, 80 Columbus and the earthly paradise, 141 Cronos, 163; a vegetation deity, 29 Cybele, 12, 30, 75, 81 Cyclops, the, 55, 56 Cypress, the sacred, 5, 13, 17, 39, 40, 51, 89, 131 D Damaras, creation legend of the, 74 Daphne, 94; metamorphosis of, 77 Daphnephoria, the, 47 Delphi, sacred laurel of, 36, 47, 50, 77, 98; oracle of, 36, 50, 77, 94, 98, 102 Didû, the, emblem of Osiris, 34, 117 Dionysus, fruit-tree dressed as, 31, 33; sacred tree of, 27; a tree deity, 11, 12, 31, 32, 39, 48, 49, 57, 126, 159 Divination in Germany, 102; by leaves, 107; by roots, 106; in Sarmatia, 102; in Scythia, 102; in Sweden, 105 Divining rod, the, 103 _et seq._ Dodona, oracular oak of, 28, 36, 93, 96, 98, 102 Druids, the, 20, 35, 103, 105, 161, 164 Dryads, the, 55, 58, 63 Dusares and the vine, 40 E Ea, 7, 95, 111; sacred cedar of, 40, 131 Eddas, the, account of man’s origin in, 73; description of Yggdrasil in, 112 Egypt, sacred sycamores of, 9, 25, 27, 44, 45; tree-demons of, 55; tree-worship in, 9, 10, 25, 45; world-tree of, 110, 117 _Eiresione_, the, 48, 151, 173; addressed as a person, 153 Elves, 24, 52, 63, 65 England, Christmas-tree in, 165; May celebrations in, 144 _et seq._; tree-worship in, 20 Esdras, paradise of, 131 Esthonia, tree-worship in, 19, 44; world-tree of, 122 F Fairies, the, 65 Fauns, the, 55, 58 Faunus, grove oracles of, 100 Fertility, the tree as genius of, 87, 153 _Ficus ruminalis_, the, 76, 86 Fig-tree, the, associated with the silvani, 58; carved as Pan, 33; spirit of, 58 Finland, tree-spirits of, 70; tree-worship in, 19; world-tree of, 120 Flower-maidens, the, 60 France, divination in, 105; harvest custom in, 150; tree-worship in, 19