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festival

of Cybele

was

regularly

hanged or

otherwise

slain upon

the sacred

tree, and

that this

barbarous

custom was

afterwards

mitigated

into the

form in

which it

is known

to us in

later

times,

when the

priest

merely

drew blood

from his

body under

the tree

and

attached

an effigy

instead of

himself to

its trunk.

In the

holy grove

at Upsala

men and

animals

were

sacrificed

by being

hanged

upon the

sacred

trees. The

human

victims

dedicated

to Odin