Note 452 — IX. COMPARATIVE FOLK-LORE.
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Sir W. Betham, Gael and Cimbri: 1834. ‘The branches of a tree near the Stone of Fire Temple in the Persian province of Fars were found thickly hung with rags, and the same offerings are common on bushes round sacred wells in the Dekkan of India and Ceylon.’ (Forbes-Leslie, Early Races of Scotland, i. 163.)