Tree Worship
The Celts believed that trees had spirits and worshipped certain trees. Often it was considered that fairy-like animistic beings lived in them. The three most sacred trees to the Celts were the oak, the ash and the thorn.
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Famous quotes containing the words tree and/or worship:
“What he loved so much in the plant morphological structure of the tree was that given a fixed mathematical basis, the final evolution was so incalculable.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
“I hear as good exclamation on your worship as of any man in the city.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)