It was held sacred by the Druids and Celtic nations, who attribute to it valuable medicinal qualities, calling it allheal and guidhel, and they preferred, if not selected exclusively, the misletoe of the oak.
Some of the druidical ceremonies might have been embodied, and even the use of the mysterious misletoe then adopted, the aid of the bards called in, and ale and mead quaffed in abundance.
His branch appears to have been the misletoe of the oak, now of great rarity, though it is found on many other trees.
Why said he to the hot, testy Celt, is it not true, that you do not in effect adore this Misletoe, but that Being who created that Misletoe and the Oak, to which it is so closely united?
Throughout the whole of this district and the neighboring province of Brittany, the ancient attachment of the Druids to misletoe continues to a certain degree to prevail.
Among the sacred rites of the Druids there were none more celebrated than that they used of the misletoe of the oak.
The Druids regarded the misletoe as an antidote against all poisons, and they preserved their selago against all misfortunes.
The Druids cut their misletoe with a golden hook, and the Persians cut the twigs of Ghez, or haulm, called bursam, with a peculiar sort of concentrated knife.
As the oak and misletoe were sacred to the Druids, so were they to the Israelites in their days of declension.
But the misletoe was only one of many articles they had possessing occult virtue.
To the ancient inhabitants of Italy the misletoe was a sacred emblem; and the golden branches of Virgil were none other than those of the misletoe.
The misletoe is supposed to be the golden bough which Æneas made use of, to introduce himself to the Elysian regions.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "misletoe" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
