317; Midsummer fires lit under, x. 215; shaken at Christmas to make them bear fruit, x. 248; fumigated with smoke of need-fire, x. 280; fertilized by burning torches, x. 340 Fruitful tree, use of stick cut from a, ix.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 12 of 12) by James George Frazer
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