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Updated: May 27, 2025
The practice of begging pardon of the animal one has just slain is in some parts of the world extended to the case of plants. When the Talein offers a prayer to the tree which he is about to cut down, it is obviously because he regards the tree as endowed with a soul or ghost which in the next life may need to be propitiated.
Some of the Siamese in the same way offer cakes and rice to the trees before felling them, and the Talein of Burmah will pray to the spirit of the tree before they begin to cut the tree down . Likewise in the Australian bush demons whistle in the branches, and in a variety of other eccentric ways make their presence manifest reminding us of Ariel's imprisonment:
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