The Lore of the ForestSacred Groves and Tree Nymphs, Yule Logs and Divining Rods, Wild Huntsmen and Wood-Wives . . . Delve into an enchanting exploration of the magic and mystery of forest realms in this scholarly and highly readable work. Fact and fable sit side by side with snippets of Shakespeare and ancient legend to create a mythology of the woods throughout human history.Since its original publication in 1928, this lively guide to the folklore of the forest around the world has also appeared under such titles as The Forest in Folklore and Mythology and Forest Folklore, Mythology and Romance. It has become a beloved sourcebook and reference guide for environmentalists, anthropologists, Wiccans, and nature lovers alike.AUTHOR BIO: Scottish author ALEXANDER PORTEOUS was a professor of philosophy whose work appeared in various philosophical journals, which include The Town Council Seals of Scotland; Historical, Legendary and Heraldic (1906) and The History of Crieff from the Earliest Times to the Dawn of the Twentieth Century (1912). |
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... green star . A strange picture indeed , these forests , with their towering reeds and their gigantic club- mosses , must have presented had there been human eye to see . In addition to the damp steamy atmosphere , an ever- clouded sky ...
... green star . A strange picture indeed , these forests , with their towering reeds and their gigantic club- mosses , must have presented had there been human eye to see . In addition to the damp steamy atmosphere , an ever- clouded sky ...
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... green wood during three minutes , and found that in these three minutes three hundred years had flown . To a wanderer in forest solitudes a sense of mystery is often perceived which lures him on and on into the verdant depths of the ...
... green wood during three minutes , and found that in these three minutes three hundred years had flown . To a wanderer in forest solitudes a sense of mystery is often perceived which lures him on and on into the verdant depths of the ...
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... by the ancients that ghosts and spirits took a delight in making their appearance there . The poet Waller wrote : " In such green palaces the first kings reign'd ; CHAPTER IV GROVES Earliest Temples; Druids; Classic Groves.
... by the ancients that ghosts and spirits took a delight in making their appearance there . The poet Waller wrote : " In such green palaces the first kings reign'd ; CHAPTER IV GROVES Earliest Temples; Druids; Classic Groves.
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... green trees of Greece and Italy were not indigenous to these countries , but were due to the sacred groves surrounding the temples of the Oriental gods and goddesses , and that thus the Laurel had followed in the wake of the worship of ...
... green trees of Greece and Italy were not indigenous to these countries , but were due to the sacred groves surrounding the temples of the Oriental gods and goddesses , and that thus the Laurel had followed in the wake of the worship of ...
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... green tree " ( 2 Kings xvii . 10 ) ; and again- " And they left all the commandments of the Lord their God , and made them molten images , even two calves , and made a grove , and wor- shipped all the host of heaven , and served Baal ...
... green tree " ( 2 Kings xvii . 10 ) ; and again- " And they left all the commandments of the Lord their God , and made them molten images , even two calves , and made a grove , and wor- shipped all the host of heaven , and served Baal ...
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Page 103 - I know a bank whereon the wild thyme blows, Where ox-lips and the nodding violet grows ; Quite over-canopied with lush woodbine, With sweet musk-roses, and with eglantine...
Page 252 - Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground; Another race the following spring supplies; They fall successive, and successive rise: So generations in their course decay; So flourish these, when those are pass'd away.
Page 40 - If it please the king, let letters be given me to the governors beyond the river, that they .may convey me over till I come into Judah ; and a letter unto Asaph the keeper...
Page 69 - From the still glassy lake that sleeps Beneath Aricia's trees — Those trees in whose dim shadow The ghastly priest doth reign, The priest who slew the slayer, And shall himself be slain...
Page 103 - These are the forgeries of jealousy : And never, since the middle summer's spring Met we on hill, in dale, forest, or mead, By paved fountain, or by rushy brook, Or on the beached margent of the sea, To dance our ringlets to the whistling wind, But with thy brawls thou hast disturb'd our sport.
Page 47 - And they left all the commandments of the LORD their God, and made them molten images, even two calves, and made a grove, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal.
Page 47 - He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brazen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan.
Page 177 - With bitter tears she wept her last offence ; And still she weeps, nor sheds her tears in vain ; For still the precious drops her name retain.
Page 78 - Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties all a summer's day; While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded...