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highest reverence ; no one ever plucked a leaf from its sombre
boughs, and even the birds refrained from pecking the scarlet
berries. A band of pirates, however, happening to visit the locality,
two of them spied the tree, and forthwith climbed into its venerable
boughs and proceeded to cut bow-staves for themselves: their
audacity speedily brought about its own punishment, for they both
fell and were killed on the spot. Both in old Celtic and in
Anglo-Saxon the Yew-tree was called Iw. B y early English authors
its name was variously spelt Yew, Yeugh, Ewgh, Ugh, and Ewe.
In Switzerland, it is known as William Tell’s Tree. Dream
oracles state that there is but one signification to dreams concerning
the Yew, viz., that it is the certain forerunner of the demise of
an aged person, through which the dreamer will derive substantial
benefits.
YGGDRASILL.—The mythical Scandinavian World-tree,
or Mundane Ash, is the greatest and best of all trees: beneath it
the gods assemble in counsel; its branches spread over the whole
world and reach above heaven; and its roots penetrate to the
infernal regions. On its summit is perched an all-seeing eagle,
with a hawk between his eyes. A squirrel continually carries news
to him, while serpents coiled round the vast trunk endeavour to
destroy him. Serpents, also, constantly gnaw the roots, from
which come the fountains of wisdom and futurity. The Norns
always keep a watch upon the Yggdrasill: they fix the lifetime of
all men, and dispense destinies. Under the tree is hidden the
horn which shall be sounded and rouse the world at the last great
conflidt.
Acis and Galatea, 532
Adam, Eve, the Wolf, and the Dog, 362
Adam’s Tree, 303
Ajax, 404
Albertus Magnus, 13 3
Ali Baba and the Sesame, 544
Amaracus, 433
Amaranthus, 2 12
Andromeda, 2 14
Arabian Priests and Cinnamon, 283
Argonauts, 8 1, 249
Arjuna, the Betel Thief, 251
Aroth, Maroth, and the Beauty, 577
Aspen and the Flight into Egypt, 230
,, ,, Passion, 229
Aspic and Balm-tree, 239
Asses and Hemlock, 145
Atalanta and Hippomenes, 2 18
Atys and Agdistis, 210
„ ,, Cybele, 495
Baldr and the Mistletoe, 440
Balm Trees of Cairo, 124
Bachelier and the Anemone, 216
Bacchus and the Pomegranate, 499
Batou and the Cedar, 275
Bertram and the Heartsease, 484
Birth of Vishnu, 241
Blacksmith changed to a Bear, 250
Bonze and the Mouse, 5 1 3
Bosworth Field, 360
Buddha, 4, 420, 491
,, and Mâra, 4
Bushman Rice, 5 14
Callimachus and the Acanthus, 206
Calchas and Mopsus, 3 3 5
Ceres and Proserpine, 504
Chang Ching and the Fairy, 449
Charlemagne and the Thistle, 269
Chinese Trees of Love, 274
Clairon and the Violets, 581
Clovis, 387
Clytie and Phoebus, 365
Cosmogonic Lotus, 4 19
Cossacks and Tartars, 286
Crocus and Smilax, 299
Crown Imperial, 347
Cyanus and the Cornflower, 277
Cyparissus, 302
Czekanka, 326
Danes and the Thistle, 562
Daphne and Phoebus, 404
Daughter of the Laurel, 408
Death of Buddha, 539
Devil and Blackberries, 258
,, ,, the Oats, 472
,, ,, the Reed, 5 12
Devil’s Brother, 45 1
Dewadat and Buddha, 268
Diarmuid and Grainne, 5 3 1
Duke of Tuscany’s Gardener, 392
Dryope, 4 1 7
Earl of Essex’s Horses, 445
Elm of Ethiopia, 1 3 1
Emperor of China, 447
Envious Sisters, 436
Erisichthon, 77
Esthonian Peasant, 254
Eugenie and Napoleon I I I ., 581
Eve and the Snowdrop, 546
Fairy Wife, 356
,, Widower, 3 3 3
Faithful Wife, 5 5 1
Falcon and Soma, 439
Fatal Elopement, 582,
Father Garnet’s Straw, 13 4
F ig of Paradise, 12 7
Fir-tree Elf, 65
First Roses, 5 15
Flora and Zephyr, 2 15
Forget-me-not, 342
Fulke and the Plantagenets, 260
Garden of the Lower Regions, 223
Gefroi and the Broom, 260
Glastonbury Thorn, 35 2
Glaucus, 541
Golden Apples, 477
Grey Horse, 265
Hanpang and Ho, 274
Hercules and Cerberus, 442
Holy Family and Date Palm, 3 1 2
,, Rose of Jericho, 528
Honor Garrigan and the Blackberries, 259