Scatalogic Rites of All Nations: A dissertation upon the employment of excrementitious remedial agents in religion, therapeutics, divination, witchcraft, love-philters, etc., in all parts of the globe

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Chapter 8

XVI. AN INQUIRY INTO THE DRUIDICAL USE OF THE MISTLETOE 99

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Former employment of an infusion or decoction of mistletoe.—The mistletoe alleged to have been held sacred by the Mound-builders.—The mistletoe festival of the Mexicans.—Vestiges of Druidical rites at the present day.—The Linguistics of the mistletoe.