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Arab Tree Worship--Story of Kaimun, the captive slave--Miracle of the Date Tree--Persian bushes--Plane-tree--The Great Cypress--The old man of Diarbekir--The Fervüers--Anecdote of Xerxes--Anecdote of a merchant and his wife--The bush of the "Excellent" Tree--The Cypresses of the Zoroaster--Motawakel-- The Triple-tree of Abraham--Tree of the Club of Hercules--The Tree of Passienus Crispus--The Virgin Mary's Fig-tree--Tree of Mohammed's Staff--The Neema-tree of the Gallas--Irish Superstitions--Saint Valeri--People of Livonia--Destruction of a Sacred Tree.