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Poet. author. former U.S. Senator from Minnesota and candidate for the presidency. Eugene McCarthy now lives in the F.T. Valley near Slate Mills. those ordinarily assumed by those who engage in the practice.

It has a long history in pagan cultures. No one can be sure that it has lost all of those early powers even though there is doubt that it ever had them.

The Druids of Ireland were its chief promoters and made fine distinctions relative to its use. Only mistletoe that had grown in parisitical association with an oak tree had sacred or magical powers. That front poplar, apple, or other trees was suspect, and if it was to be useful, in religious rites, had to be transferred to an oak, and draw sustenance from that tree before it could come to possess power.

The mistletoe had to be cut down by a druid priest using a golden knife and caught in

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