Show A strange god trye what Is a god tree nobody knows or had ever heard of such a thing un nn tit til not long ago an ethnological explorer camo across quite a lot of meal on certain little known islands along the west coast of sumatra the god tree ts Is carved out of 0 wood with curiously fashioned branches of the same material on these branches are arc hung strings of bright colored bits of cloth and tiny baskets filled with grains of rice the whole affair afenir Is not more than three net feet high according to the belief of the natives of the islands aforesaid a goil god lives in the he tree ile he Is not a particularly good sort of divinity arid kiil it if he takes it 11 notion to leave the tree tic lie Is liable to flu folks a mischief the beit way to persuade him to ats day st at ho boi uie ne in the tree Is to make the latter attractive by adorning it in the manner described and by supplying rice in baskets for the god to eat the god Is a household god cod and the tree which he be inhabits to a kept in to i cobner corner of at the family dwelling |