Part of a privately printed Victorian series on phallic worship, this volume gathers accounts of sacred trees from many lands and periods, from the Bo-tree of Buddhism carried to Ceylon and replanted at its shrines to the holy groves of the ancient world and the tree lore of Europe and Asia. The compiler reads nearly all of it as sexual symbolism.
A curiosity of nineteenth-century comparative religion, more interesting for its sources than for its theories. Download the free EPUB.