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