, II. 276-277.) He who injured the holy tree of Bostam, we are told, perished the same day: ageneral belief in regard to those Trees of Grace, of which we have already seeninstances in regard to the sacred trees of Zoroaster and the Oak of Hebron. We findthe same belief in Eastern Africa, where… … Oh *38 MARCO POLO Book I. Burton relates a case of the verification of the superstition in the death of an Englishmerchant who had cut down such a tree, and of four members of his household. Itis the old story which Ovid tells ; and the tree which Erisichthon felled was aDirakht- i- Fazl: Vittae…
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