The Druids regarded the misletoe as an antidote against all poisons, and they preserved their selago against all misfortunes.

Among the sacred rites of the Druids there were none more celebrated than that they used of the misletoe of the oak.

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.