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CULTUS ARBORUM OR PHALLIC TREE WORSHIP.




  CULTUS ARBORUM

  A DESCRIPTIVE ACCOUNT OF
  Phallic Tree Worship
  WITH ILLUSTRATIVE
  Legends, Superstitions, Usages, &c.,

  EXHIBITING ITS
  Origin and Development
  AMONGST THE
  Eastern & Western Nations of the World
  FROM THE EARLIEST TO MODERN TIMES;

  WITH A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORKS UPON AND
  REFERRING TO THE PHALLIC CULTUS.


  PRIVATELY PRINTED.

  1890.




PREFACE.


_The present volume forms a companion to three already issued on "Ancient
and Modern Symbol Worship," denominated severally, "Phallism,"
"Ophiolatreia," "Phallic Objects and Remains," and "Tree Worship," they
all form parts of one whole, and constitute a Series on the various forms
and phases of what is known as "Phallic Worship."_

_The subject is an extensive one, and there still remain sections of it
which have not yet been dealt with, but which may be exhibited in future
volumes. Although in the compass of the present work it has been
impossible to treat the subject in anything like an exhaustive manner, a
great deal of matter has been incorporated in its closely-printed pages
which, attentively perused, will enable the reader to form a just opinion
of what is included in the title._

_At the end of this volume we have endeavoured to give the student of
Ancient Faiths a Bibliography of works on or connected with Phallism._

_Being