| Show IntJttrcrSarrrd A Siercd Plant In England Mbtlctce h I one of tho o plantt called parasites The mistletoe is o gray turead like plant and you will sometimes see it about the streets for rale at Christmas time for like the holly it is i a ChrMrnas plant says mir ritcrin JjiOe Men and Wcnsen There arc many different kinds of mistletoe but that which grows on the oak is the meet famous In Eng lish history In Kugland although tile pceple think a great deal of having Ute mUtletoo of the oak to deck their houses at Chri tmnilLs nol nlloWLt In the churches Many many hundred years ago the mistletoe was unn cacrcd plant in England The people did not worship wor-ship the ono true God but they bo HeveU in several evil spirits and these spirits they worshIped and gjr to tir tried to please For these zpfrite they set apart the oak trees Their priests gem u called iJrulds and they built their altars in oak grcYes There they Jre and sans their hymns of praise Dressed in long white robs those DruIds marched In procession to the oak trees and cut oQ the mistletoe with knives of gold ArterIng prayer ned they cut it inshort piectannd gave it tf a ew Year gift among Ue peoplp who tcft It carefully |
