Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A vivifying sentient spirit imagined by tree-worshipers to exist in every tree.
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Examples
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"What if that tree-soul which the Kakatanawa guard were the sum of all our souls?"
The Skrayling Tree Moorcock, Michael, 1939- 2003
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The powers which he exercised as a tree-soul incorporate in a tree, he still continues to wield as a god of trees.
Chapter 9. The Worship of Trees. § 2. Beneficent Powers of Tree-Spirits 1922
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In other words, instead of regarding each tree as a living and conscious being, man now sees in it merely a lifeless, inert mass, tenanted for a longer or shorter time by a supernatural being who, as he can pass freely from tree to tree, thereby enjoys a certain right of possession or lordship over the trees, and, ceasing to be a tree-soul, becomes a forest god.
Chapter 9. The Worship of Trees. § 2. Beneficent Powers of Tree-Spirits 1922
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The powers which he exercised as a tree-soul incorporate in a tree, he still continues to wield as a god of trees.
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In other words, instead of regarding each tree as a living and conscious being, man now sees in it merely a lifeless, inert mass, tenanted for a longer or shorter time by a supernatural being who, as he can pass freely from tree to tree, thereby enjoys a certain right of possession or lordship over the trees, and, ceasing to be a tree-soul, becomes a forest god.
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In other words, instead of regarding each tree as a living and conscious being, man now sees in it merely a lifeless, inert mass, tenanted for a longer or shorter time by a supernatural being who, as he can pass freely from tree to tree, thereby enjoys a certain right of possession or lordship over the trees, and, ceasing to be a tree-soul, becomes a forest god.
The Golden Bough James George Frazer 1897
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The powers which he exercised as a tree-soul incorporate in a tree, he still continues to wield as a god of trees.
The Golden Bough James George Frazer 1897
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The powers which he exercised as a tree-soul incorporate in a tree, he still continues to wield as a god of trees.
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In other words, instead of regarding each tree as a living and conscious being, man now sees in it merely a lifeless, inert mass, tenanted for a longer or shorter time by a supernatural being who, as he can pass freely from tree to tree, thereby enjoys a certain right of possession or lordship over the trees, and, ceasing to be a tree-soul, becomes a forest god.
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