Table 2.

The supernatural powers of sacred trees.

The supernatural power	Druze (n= 27)	Arabs (n= 24)	Bedouin (n = 34)	References from the Middle East	References from other regions
1. Punishing of the tree violators	88.8	91.6	91.1	See Table 3	See Table 3
2. Granting a divine blessing (barake); petitions for health/wishing tree/tree as mediator to God	77.7	91.6	82.3	[Palestine (40:107:108), (41: passim) (42: passim), (111:48,51)]	[Estonia (173:4); Sierra Leone (174:48); East Africa (175:4); Chad (176; 248); Japan (177:23), (16:10); Australia, New Zealand (23:164)]
3. Breakdown of machinery or vehicles	47.0	62.5	41.1	[Palestine (111:69)]	[India (90: 219–220)]
4. Punishing for false oaths	14.8	44.4	23.5		[India (186:266)]
5. Protection of properties deposited underneath.	22.2	25.0	29.4	[Palestine (43:215), (40:102), (178:138)]
6. Cure of ill domestic Animals (circumambulation around the tree)	33.3	8.3	2.9		[Scotland (179, II:184–185)]
7. Parts of the tree used as medicine	29.6	20.8	17.6	Palestine (87: 66);, Egypt (46:56)]	[Pagan Europe (35:276) East Africa (180:278, 279)]
8. Parts of the tree used as a talisman	22.2	12.5	11.7	[Palestine (181:129); Egypt (182:11)]	Ancient Celts (51:199); Ireland (20:36,38); East Africa (Kikuyu, 175:5); India (27:590,(6:24)]
9. Food/objects are placed under the tree to absorb the barake	18.5	25.0	11.6	[Palestine (111:52)]
10. Shelter from violence/revenge/	18.5	16.6	11.7		[Ancient Greece (53:173, (37:335), (53:173), (13:51), (17:221–228); Rome (133: passim),(50:68); Ghana (183:149), (184;129) India (100:241,252)]
11. Sleeping/resting under the tree as a barake/medicine	14.8	0	0	[Palestine (74:I:448); Arabia (14:50), (91:331), (185:30)]	[Many countries (179, II:169–173)]
12. Crawling under the tree/through the split in the trunk for a cure	0	0	0	Lebanon (122:16),(67:2430; Syria (28: 179)]	Ancient Celts (51:331); Pagan Europe (179, II: 173,169–171), (14:50); Britain (187:129)]