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Thor's hammer, the consecrator of marriage. The latter was unquestionably one form of the many phallic symbols. Mr. Baring-Gould notices the prohibitions issued at various times against the carrying about of ploughs and ships, especially on Shrove Tuesday, because they were phallic symbols. A writer in the _Quarterly Magazine_, although he considers the planting of the old boundary oak as a Saxon institution, yet regards the placing of the cross thereon as a withdrawal of the tree
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Kelly, in reply to this, says:--
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More or less it did so in Christian times, but previously to then the cross as well as the tree may have belonged to Thor.