 The mistletoe was viewed as the seat of life of the oak, and so long as it was uninjured nothing could kill or even wound the oak. The conception of the mistletoe as the seat of life of the oak would naturally be suggested to primitive people by the observation...  Balder; mythus und sage - Page 13by Friedrich Kauffmann - 1902 - 308 pagesFull view - About this book
 | James George Frazer - Dying and rising gods - 1890 - 430 pages
...was uninjured nothing could kill or even wound the oak. The conception of the mistletoe as the scat of life of the oak would naturally be suggested to...must have been hailed by the worshippers of the tree as a sign that the divine life which had ceased to animate the branches yet survived in the mistletoe,... | |
 | Dugald Butler - Abernathy (Scotland) - 1897 - 604 pages
...long as it was uninjured nothing could kill or even wound the oak. The conception of the mistletoe as the seat of life of the oak would naturally be suggested to primitive peoples by the observation that while the oak is deciduous, the mistletoe which grows on it is evergreen.... | |
 | James George Frazer - Dying and rising gods - 1900 - 522 pages
...long as it was uninjured nothing could kill or even wound the oak. The conception of the mistletoe as the seat of life of the oak would naturally be suggested...must have been hailed by the worshippers of the tree as a sign that the divine life which had ceased to animate the branches yet survived in the mistletoe,... | |
 | James George Frazer - Magic - 1913 - 434 pages
...long as it was uninjured nothing could kill or even wound the oak. The conception of the mistletoe as the seat of life of the oak would naturally be suggested...must have been hailed by the worshippers of the tree as a sign that the divine life which had ceased to animate the branches yet survived in the mistletoe,... | |
 | James George Frazer - Religion - 2005 - 733 pages
...long as it was uninjured nothing could kill or even wound the oak. The conception of the mistletoe as the seat of life of the oak would naturally be suggested...oak is deciduous, the mistletoe which grows on it i? evergreen. In winter the sight of its fresh foliage among the bare branches must have been hailed... | |
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