24 NOTES ON WEST AFRICAN CATEGORIES 



while a priest waters the stalks from a pitcher in his 

 hand." 



Frank in " Modern Light on Immortality" says: 

 " The element of the tree worship undoubtedly evinces 

 the aboriginal origin of the Druidical worship ; for it 

 is easily traced through the entire Scandinavian 

 mythology." 



It is Odhinn who with his two brothers goes forth 

 throughout the world to find Ask and Embla, the ash 

 and the elm. Finding these stocks void of life, they 

 breathed into them the living spirit, and from their 

 bosom sprang the human race. 



