Note 27 — XVI. AN INQUIRY INTO THE DRUIDICAL USE OF THE MISTLETOE.
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It was the only plant in the world which could harm Baldur, the son of Odin and Friga. When a branch of it struck him he fell dead.—(See in “Bulfinch’s Mythology,” revised by Rev. E. E. Hale, Boston, 1883, p. 428.)