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	Black Forest - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Black Forest is part of the continental divide between the Atlantic Ocean watershed (drained by the Rhine) and the Black Sea watershed (drained by the Danube).
		Administratively, the Black Forest belongs to the following counties; in the north: Enz, Pforzheim, Rastatt, and Calw; in the middle: Freudenstadt, Ortenaukreis, and Rottweil; in the south: Emmendingen, Schwarzwald-Baar, Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald, Lörrach, and Waldshut.
		The forest mostly consists of pines and firs, some of which are grown in commercial monoculture; the main industry is tourism.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Black_Forest (521 words)

	Forest
		David withdrew to the forest of Hareth in the mountains of Judah to avoid the fury of Saul (1 Samuel 22:5).
		We read also of the forest of Bethel (2 Kings 2:23,24), and of that which the Israelites passed in their pursuit of the Philistines (1 Samuel 14:25), and of the forest of the cedars of Lebanon (1 Kings 4:33; 2Kings 19:23; Hosea 14:5,6).
		The forest is an image of unfruitfulness as contrasted with a cultivated field (Isaiah 29:17; 32:15; Jeremiah 26:18; Hosea 2:12).
	dictionary.crossmap.com /definition/forest.htm (541 words)

	forest.htm
		The forest sacrifice (human) which presents a ritual of death and rebirth in the confines of the sacred grove continues to be demanded by the German psyche as propitiation of the forest god.
		He extolled the beauty of the German woods, in particular the Urwald (Hercynian forests of pre-historic Germany), ironically, as Germany was being deforested by expanding population and the growth of towns.
		The loss of the primeval deciduous forests and their identification with the nation was being transferred to the second growth domesticated forests of conifer which we see now.
	www.frontiernet.net /~mmulford/FOREST.HTM (6214 words)

	Frazer, Sir James George. 1922. The Golden Bough
		Contrary to the common usage of the country, which is to bury the dead, the bodies of both these mystic monarchs are burnt, but their nails and some of their teeth and bones are religiously preserved as amulets.
		It is while the corpse is being consumed on the pyre that the kinsmen of the deceased magician flee to the forest and hide themselves, for fear of being elevated to the invidious dignity which he has just vacated.
		Four centuries later it was visited by the Emperor Julian, and the solitude, the gloom, the silence of the forest appear to have made a deep impression on his sensitive nature.
	www.bartleby.com /196/pages/page109.html (533 words)

	Alamanni Encyclopedia @ ChannelsAndNetworks.com (Channels and Networks) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Upstream from it and between the Rhine and Abnoba (the Black Forest) are the Ingriones, Intuergi, Vangiones, Caritni and Vispi, some of whom were there since the early empire or before.
		The region between the forest and the Danube on the other hand includes about a dozen settlements, or cantons.
		This Ptolemaic view of the Germanics in the region indicates that the tribal structure had lost its grip in the Black Forest region and was replaced by a canton structure.
	www.channelsandnetworks.com /encyclopedia/Alamanni (2778 words)

	Chapter 9. The Worship of Trees. § 1. Tree-spirits. Frazer, Sir James George. 1922. The Golden Bough (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		In the forest of Arden it was said that down to modern times a squirrel might leap from tree to tree for nearly the whole length of Warwickshire.
		The silk-cotton trees, which rear their enormous trunks to a stupendous height, far out-topping all the other trees of the forest, are regarded with reverence throughout West Africa, from the Senegal to the Niger, and are believed to be the abode of a god or spirit.
		Trees in which he specially dwells—for it is not every silk-cotton tree that he thus honours—are surrounded by a girdle of palm-leaves; and sacrifices of fowls, and occasionally of human beings, are fastened to the trunk or laid against the foot of the tree.
	aol.bartleby.com /196/17.html (4002 words)

	Black Forest - Free net encyclopedia
		The forest mostly consists of firs; the main industry is tourism.
		This forest has suffered serious damage from acid rain and is only a fraction of the size it used to be; however, the storm Lothar knocked down hundreds of acres of mountaintops in 1999, leaving some of the high peaks and scenic hills bare, with only primary growth shrubs and young fir trees.
		The Black Forest is known for its cuckoo clocks, honey, and for Black Forest gateau.
	www.netipedia.com /index.php/Black_Forest (502 words)

	Turning Trees to Iron (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		What is appalling about the continuing destruction of the tropical rain forests, apart from the ferocity of the pace and the obvious disastrous consequences for the global environment, is the sense of deja vu.
		For at the dawn of history Europe was covered with immense primeval forests, in which the scattered clearings must have appeared like islets in an ocean of green.
		Four centuries later it was visited by the Emperor Julian, and the solitude, the bloom, the silence of the forest appear to have made a deep impression on his sensitive nature.
	trumpeter.athabascau.ca /content/v9.1/morse.html (1135 words)

	Cartographica Neerlandica Map Text for Ortelius Map No. 199
		Tacitus says that it is everywhere filled and covered by hideous forests, and loathsome, stinking bogs, [that] the land or country is unpleasant, the air sharp, [that it] it is difficult to plough it, and not beautiful to behold.
		For this Hercynian forest (which Eratosthenes, Apollonius and Ptolemæus, being Greek, call orcynium, the fl forest) is by far the largest of all, [since it takes] a journey of a period of sixty days [to cross it], as Mela reports.
		For this Hercynian forest (which Eratosthenes, Apollonius and Ptolemæus, being Greek, call orcynium) is by far the largest of all, [since it takes] a journey of a period of sixty days [to cross it in length], as Mela confirms.
	www.orteliusmaps.com /book/ort_text199.html (8210 words)

	History
		The Forest Order of Banská Bystrica, issued on May l5th, 1565 by Maximilian II, had been revolutionary in the development of the utilization of the Slovak woods.
		The Forest Order of Maria Theresa had prompted the planting of wood species in the free areas near villages and towns.
		It also ensured creativity in the forest economy and led to the starting of forestry teaching at the Academy of Mining in Banská Štiavnica in the year 1770.
	www.fris.sk /en/lesy/o-lesoch/zakl-fakty/history.htm (1014 words)

	On Neo-Etruscan Software for Groves
		HP Lovecraft too recognised the ancient connection between literature and fear for the boreal forests, adding it to his general category of cosmic terror that: "Appears as an ingredient of the earliest folklore of all races and is crystallised in the most heroic ballads, chronicles, and sacred writings".
		Forests ultra-absurd, patterns of trees engineered like a surrealists exquisite corps, to be experienced as something as alien as the coelacanthic creatures from the deep sea.
		The oak avant-garde are hiding out deep in the pockets of Hercynia that survived the trauma, living in tree-huts, shouting bits of code at each other, casting spells on the OS with snake-eyes, programming in tongues, debugging like a scorpion, intoxicated with the future of intelligence on earth.
	www.socialfiction.org /etruscan.html (818 words)

	Hercynia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Hercynian orogeny a synonym for the Variscan orogeny of the Carboniferous.
		The Hercynian massifs are part of the Massif Central of France.
		This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hercynia (116 words)

	The Internet Classics Archive \| The Gallic Wars by Julius Caesar
		And there was formerly a time when the Gauls excelled the Germans in prowess, and waged war on them offensively, and, on account of the great number of their people and the insufficiency of their land, sent colonies over the Rhine.
		The breadth of this Hercynian forest, which has been referred to above, is to a quick traveler, a journey of nine days.
		Allured by booty, they advance further; neither morass nor forest obstructs these men, born amid war and depredations; they inquire of their prisoners in what part Caesar is; they find that he has advanced further, and learn that all the army has removed.
	classics.mit.edu /Caesar/gallic.6.6.html (4547 words)

	The Celtic Tree of Life
		Italy was covered from coast to coast with dense woods of oak, elm and chestnut; the great Hercynian forest rendered Germany impenetrable in Caesar's time; Scotland was clothed with the magnificent Caledonian, Ireland with oak-woods, the whole of Southern England with the ancient trees of Anderida.
		A walk in any forest reveals the archetypal pattern of trees and water made palpable in the natural world, where they are partners linked in the dance of life.
		Wildlife, of course, suffers, too: The clear-cutting of forests in the Pacific North-West is destroying salmon-rearing habitats, and where the trees no longer form a shady canopy, water temperatures are rising and killing fish and insects in the rivers.
	www.celticspirit.org /celtictreeoflife.htm (2135 words)

	Tacitus - Selections - Page 33
		Beyond them are the Chatti, whose settlements begin at the Hercynian forest, where the country is not so open and marshy as in the other cantons into which Germany stretches.
		They are found where there are hills, and with them grow less frequent, for the Hercynian forest keeps close till it has seen the last of its native Chatti.
		Hardy frames, close-knit limbs, fierce countenances, and a peculiarly vigorous courage, mark the tribe.
	www.galileolibrary.com /ebooks/eu06/tacitus_page_33.htm (172 words)

	The Enchanted Forest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		As the last stands of ancient forests fall beneath the chainsaw north and south of the equator in our consumer-driven world, it is relevant to contemplate the deep relationship of pre-industrialised peoples with the trees.
		And because most of Old Europe was covered with a vast, trackless wilderness of trees, the forest was viewed as the very cradle of life, providing as it did food, shelter and protection to a hunting and gathering people.
		Living in such an environment, it is no wonder the forest was perceived as the primary matrix of a tribe’s sustenance, culture and spirituality.
	trumpeter.athabascau.ca /content/v13.1/2-freeman.html (1367 words)

	Sudetes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ptolemy said that they were above the Gabreta Forest, which places them in the Sudetenland.
		Ptolemy wrote in Greek, in which the name is a neuter plural.
		By implication, it was part of the Hercynian Forest mentioned by many ancient authors of Antiquity.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sudeten (415 words)

	Fragmenta : Upsaid journal
		This Hercynian forest is so wide that it takes a lightly equipped traveller nine days to cross it; this is the only way the Germans have of estimating its size, as they know nothing of measures of length.
		The forest is known to contain many kinds of animals not seen elsewhere, some of which seem worthy of mention because they differ greatly from those found in other countries.
		There is an ox shaped like a deer, with a single horn in the middle of its forehead between the ears, which sticks up higher and straighter than those of the animals we know, and at the top branches out widely like a man's hand or a tree.
	www.upsaid.com /mac47/archives.php?min=1038433425&max=1038433832 (847 words)

	Medieval Bestiary : Hercinia
		The hercinia is a bird that is born in the Hercynian forest in Germany, from which it takes its name.
		Pliny the Elder [1st century CE] (Natural History, Book 10, 67): There are reports of a strange bird found in the Hercynian Forest of Germany whose feathers glow at night like fire.
		Isidore of Seville [7th century CE] (Etymologies, Book 12, 7:31): The hercynian birds are named after Hercynium, a forest in Germany where they live.
	bestiary.ca /beasts/beast539.htm (133 words)

	June 5th
		Still, in his excursions through the wilds of the Hercynian forest, the great resort of the pagan tribes, Boniface and his companions were often exposed to personal dangers.
		One of the great objects of worship of the former was a venerable oak, of vast magnitude, which stood in the forest at Geismar, near Fritzlar, and which was looked upon, according to the Latin narrative, as dedicated to Jupiter, probably to Woden.
		Boniface seized the axe in his own hands, and, after a few strokes, a violent wind which had arisen, and of which he had probably taken advantage to apply his axe to the side on which the wind came, threw the tree down with a tremendous crash, which split the trunk into four pieces.
	www.thebookofdays.com /months/june/5.htm (2314 words)

	Adršpach - obec
		Thousands years ago, the whole area including the rocks as well as the border mountain ranges of the Krkonose and the Orlicke Hory Mountains was covered with virgin forest.
		This vast forested area was known even to the Romans as the Hercynian Forest.
		As far as the countryside was covered by the vast and thick forest that started to be colonized as late as in the 13th century, the interesting rock formations were not visible.
	www.skalyadrspach.cz /en/adrspach.php?str=h_osidlovani (1557 words)

	kalkriese Strabo
		However, while some of the tribes of the Suevi dwell inside the forest, as I was saying, others dwell outside of it, and have a common boundary with the Getae.
		This lake is south of the sources of the Ister, as is also the Hercynian Forest, so that necessarily, in going from Celtica to the Hercynian Forest, one first crosses the lake and then the Ister, and from there on advances through more passable regions--plateaus--to the forest.
		Suevi, whereas the Hercynian Forest, which is also held by them, is on the far side.
	www.floerken.de /kalkries/strabo.htm (1749 words)

	The Argument (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		forest; but I consider this to have been in consequence of their emigration, which indeed appears from that very passage.
		A forest in Germany, which Caesar describes to be nine days' journey in breadth, and, at least, sixty days' journey in length.
		How much more he was unable to say, as he had never found any person who had traveled farther, or could tell where the forest terminated.
	www.ccel.org /c/calvin/comment3/comm_vol41/htm/iii.ii.htm (2489 words)

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		He had heard tales that the creature inhabited the Hercynian Forest (near the Rhine), a deep stretch of woods perfect for the shy unicorn.
		Ceasar reported a sighting of one, "shaped like a stag, from the middle of whose forhead, between the ears, stands forth a single horn, taller and straighter than the horns we know." That was all he recorded.
		Deep in the forests of France, hunters found a unicorn in a flowering grove.
	members.tripod.com /~Cinnamons_Fantasy/MythicalBeings (1118 words)

	The Mighty Chatti - Sources
		Beyond them dwell the Chatti, whose country starts from the Hercynian forest; it is less open and less marshy than the other states that stretch across the wide plains of Germany.
		For the hills run on and only thin out gradually; and the Hercynian forest, like a nurse with her infant cares, escorts its Chatti throughout and finally sets them down at the edge of the plains.
		After burning Mattium, the capital of the tribe, and ravaging the open country, Germanicus marched back towards the Rhine, the enemy not daring to harass the rear of the retiring army, which was his usual practice whenever he fell back by way of stratagem rather than from panic.
	www.ancientworlds.net /aw/Post/176733 (1584 words)

	Botanical Electronic News - BEN #260
		Their major representatives are the Vosges, Black Forest, Bohemian Forest, the Ore Mountains and the High Sudetes, the latter with three dominant elevations called Giant Mts.
		The surface of Hercynian mountains is largely covered by coniferous and mixed forests.
		Zonal forest communities consist of only a few dozens of vascular species, and similar uniformity refers to other life forms, such as mosses, lichens, fungi, and to many groups of vertebrate and invertebrate animals.
	www.ou.edu /cas/botany-micro/ben/ben260.html (1395 words)

	raw-draft
		This is the most simplest of L-Expressions, the Hercynian Forest is what we are describing, without any description given.
		Hercynian Forest ("the Hercynian forest as described by Sir James Fraser")
		But suppose you are walking through the forest and want to record your sensations while you go.
	www.socialfiction.org /onlyone/LEX.html (624 words)

	Daniel Boone's Move to Kentucky by Theodore Roosevelt
		The shaggy-maned herds of unwieldly buffalo--the bison as they should be called--had beaten out broad roads through the forest, and had furrowed the prairies with trails along which they had traveled for countless generations.
		For six months Boone and his companions enjoyed such hunting as had hardly fallen to men of their race since the Germans came out of the Hercynian forest.
		Sometimes the forest was open and composed of huge trees; elsewhere it was of thicker, smaller growth.
	www.nationalcenter.org /BoonebyRoosevelt.html (1517 words)

	Newman Reader - Mission of St. Benedict
		His preference of the forest to the city, which he had shown in his life-time before his {395} conversion, was illustrated by the particular grace or miraculous service, for which, more than for any other, he used his glorious intercession on high.
		Gall, one of them, betook himself to a Swiss forest, fearful from the multitude of wild beasts; and then, choosing the neighbourhood of a mountain stream, he made a cross of twigs, and hung some relics on it, and laid the foundation of his celebrated abbey.
		Silent men were observed about the country, or discovered in the forest, digging, clearing, and building; and other silent men, not seen, were sitting in the cold cloister, tiring their eyes, and keeping their attention on the stretch, while they painfully deciphered and copied and re-copied the manuscripts which they had saved.
	www.newmanreader.org /works/historical/volume2/benedictine/mission.html (12380 words)

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