Note 372 — Chapter XV · TAOISM, LOCAL DEITIES, TREE-WORSHIP
Reading edition
Frazer's Golden Bough (2nd ed.), vol. i. pp. 173-4. For Dr. Frazer's admirable discussion of the whole subject see especially vol. i. pp. 166-232, and vol. iii. pp. 26 seq. See also Grant Allen's Evolution of the Idea of God, pp. 138 seq.; Philpot's The Sacred Tree, passim; Maspero's Dawn of Civilisation (4th ed.), pp. 121-2; H. M. Bower's The Elevation and Procession of the Ceri at Gubbio (David Nutt, 1897), pp. 61, 70 seq., 85 seq., 93 and passim; Griffis's The Religions of Japan (4th ed.), pp. 30 seq.; Ferguson's Tree and Serpent Worship, passim; W. W. Skeat's Malay Magic, pp. 52 seq., 63 seq., 193 seq., 203 seq.; Reinach's Orpheus (Eng. tr. 1909), pp. 114, 129.