[661] D’Arbois, Les Celtes, 52.

[662] Lucan, Phar. Usener’s ed., 32; Orosius, v. 16. 6; Dio Cass. lxii. 6.

[663] Pliny, xvi. 44.  The Scholiast on Lucan says that the Druids divined with acorns (Usener, 33).

[664] Max.  Tyr. Diss. viii. 8; Stokes, RC i. 259.

[665] Le Braz, ii. 18.

[666] Mr. Chadwick (Jour.  Anth.  Inst. xxx. 26) connects this high god with thunder, and regards the Celtic Zeus (Taranis, in his opinion) as a thunder-god.  The oak was associated with this god because his worshippers dwelt under oaks.

[667] Helbig, Die Italiker in der Poebene, 16 f.

[668] Mannhardt, Baumkultus; Frazer, Golden Bough{2} iii. 198.

[669] Frazer, loc. cit.

[670] Evans, Arch.  Rev. i. 327 f.

[671] Joyce, SH i. 236.

[672] O’Curry, MC i. 213.

[673] LL 199_b_; Rennes Dindsenchas, RC xv. 420.

[674] RC xv. 455, xvi. 279; Hennessey, Chron.  Scot. 76.

[675] Keating, 556; Joyce, PN i. 499.

[676] Wood-Martin, ii. 159.

[677] D’Arbois, Les Celtes, 51; Jullian, 41.

[678] Cook, Folk-Lore, xvii. 60.

[679] See Sebillot, i. 293; Le Braz, i. 259; Folk-Lore Journal, v. 218; Folk-Lore Record, 1882.

[680] Val.  Probus, Comm. in Georgica, ii. 84.

[681] Miss Hull, 53; O’Ourry, MS. Mat. 465.  Writing tablets, made from each of the trees when they were cut down, sprang together and could not be separated.

[682] Stat.  Account, iii. 27; Moore, 151; Sebillot, i. 262, 270.

[683] Dom Martin, i. 124; Vita S. Eligii, ii. 16.

[684] Acta Sanct. (Bolland.), July 31; Sulp.  Sever. Vita S. Mart. 457.

[685] Grimm, Teut.  Myth. 76; Maury, 13, 299.  The story of beautiful women found in trees may be connected with the custom of placing images in trees, or with the belief that a goddess might be seen emerging from the tree in which she dwelt.

[686] De la Tour, Atlas des Monnaies Gaul, 260, 286; Reinach, Catal.  Sommaire, 29.

[687] Pliny, HN xvi. 44.

[688] See p. 162, supra.

[689] See Cameron, Gaelic Names of Plants, 45.  In Gregoire de Rostren, Dict. francois-celt. 1732, mistletoe is translated by dour-dero, “oak-water,” and is said to be good for several evils.

[690] Pliny, xxiv. 11.

[691] Ibid.

[692] Ibid. xxv. 9.

[693] See Carmichael, Carmina Gadelica; De Nore, Coutumes ... des Provinces de France, 150 f.; Sauve, RC vi. 67, CM ix. 331.

[694] O’Grady, ii. 126.

[695] Miss Hull, 172; see p. 77, supra.