     use of branches in, 49
  Artemis, 49, 76;
      a vegetation deity, 29, 88;
      sacred tree of, 45, 49
  _Ashera_, the, 8, 88, 96
  Assyria, tree-worship in, 5, 6, 88
  Astarte, 8, 30, 87;
      the cypress sacred to, 40
  Athena, 152;
      the olive sacred to, 38
  Athens, festivals at, 48, 151
  Atlantis, the lost, 139
  Atlas, Mount, 110, 119, 135, 136
  Attis, a tree-god, 11, 75, 80, 81, 154, 159
  Auxerre, sacred tree of, 20
  Avalon, the isle of, 140

                                   B
  Babylonia, tree-worship in, 6;
      mountain worship in, 112;
      world-tree of, 111
  Banian, the, 42, 64, 76
  Basil, Holy, of India, 43
  Baucis and Philemon, metamorphosis of, 79
  Bavaria, Whitsuntide custom in, 159
  Beech, the sacred, 46
  Bharhut, Buddhist sculptures at, 15, 40, 42
  Bo-tree, the, 40, 116
  Bodhi-trees of the Buddhas, 40
  Borneo, tree-worship in, 16
  Boetticher, general conclusion of, regarding tree-worship, 21
  Brahma, 14, 43, 115
  Branches forced into flower at Christmas, 170;
      religious use of, 13, 36, 37, 38, 47, 48, 91
  Brittany, use of laurel branch in, 91
  Buddhas, the Bodhi-trees of the, 40
  Buddhism, tree-worship and, 14, 40, 110, 116, 142
  Burma, tree worship in, 16;
      tree-spirits of, 65

                                   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 Irmensul, 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 Chr