Mythological and Religious
Further information: Trees in mythology, World tree, and Axis mundi- Bodhi Tree, under which Siddhartha Gautama, the spiritual teacher and founder of Buddhism later known as Gautama Buddha, achieved enlightenment, or Bodhi.
- World Tree
- Égig érő fa, the "Tree Reaching into the Sky" of Hungarian folk art and a folk tale type
- Irminsul
- Jievaras, the World tree in Lithuanian mythology.
- Yggdrasil, the World Tree in the Old Norse religion.
- Cutting of the elm, a legendary event concerning a tree at Gisors.
- Cypress of Kashmar, planted by Zoroaster and felled by Caliph Al Mutawakkil.
- Man-eating tree
- Thor's Oak, a sacred tree to the ancient Germanic tribe of the Chatti.
- Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, from Christianity and Judaism.
- Tree of Life, from Christianity and Judaism.
- Ished tree, on the leaves of which the names of Egyptian pharaohs were written
- The Lote Tree
- The Zaqqum Tree
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“Both magic and religion are based strictly on mythological tradition, and they also both exist in the atmosphere of the miraculous, in a constant revelation of their wonder-working power. They both are surrounded by taboos and observances which mark off their acts from those of the profane world.”
—Bronislaw Malinowski (1884–1942)
“We think of religion as the symbolic expression of our highest moral ideals; we think of magic as a crude aggregate of superstitions. Religious belief seems to become mere superstitious credulity if we admit any relationship with magic. On the other hand our anthropological and ethnographical material makes it extremely difficult to separate the two fields.”
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