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" toe." The facrifkes being ready, the 

 prieft afcendecl the oak, and, with a gol- 

 den hook, cut off the mifletoe, which 

 was received in a white garment fpread 

 for the purpofe. This part of the cere- 

 mony being ended, the victims, two 

 white bulls that had never been yoked* 

 were brought forth, and offered up with 

 prayers, for the profperity of thofe, to 

 whom had been given fo precious a 

 boon. The mifletoe thus gathered, was 

 deemed an antidote to all poifons ; and 

 they ufed it as a fpecific againfl fterility. 

 The mofl facred folemnities of the 

 Druids were ufually performed on the 

 fixth day of the moon, which was always 

 the firft day of their months. But be- 

 fides this, it appears probable, that they 

 had alfo, with the generality of man- 

 kind, one day in feven fet apart for di- 

 vine worfhip. What other feftivals, or 

 pnniverfary folemnities, they had, we 



know 



