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People Can anyone direct me, please, to a source that throws light on the religious connotations of the yew trees found in so many English churchyards? The Concise Columbia Encyclopaedia makes a cryptic claim that yew trees have been associated with death and funeral rites since antiquity. If so, how? There is nothing in either Larousse on Mythology, or Fraser's Golden Bough on the subject. Ron Hornsby