These tales (of Tammuz and Yanbushadh) have been collected and are read in the temples after prayers, and the people weep and lament much thereupon. On the morrow, the bishop discovering his error, how we know not, sent for Theophilus, and acknowledged publicly that he had been misled by false reports, the utter valuelessness of which he was ready frankly to acknowledge; and he asked pardon of the priest, for having unjustly deprived him of his office. They are the Summer breezes deified, which, in that they waft the smoke of the sacrifices to heaven, are addressed as assisting at the sacred offerings; and in a later. The second day, he was bound to a wheel set with blades of knives and swords. The tail, the point in which man is inferior to the brute, what a delicate index of the mind it is! Carl-Ynach united his forces with those of Ariovistus, and fell in the battle of Besangon. The story of long sleepers and the number seven connected with it is ancient enough, and dates from heathen mythology. Among the Babylonians the mouse was sacrificed and eaten as a religious rite, but in connexion with what god does not transpire[155]. He had them copied exactly. The face and shoulders appeared of human form, and of a reddish colour; over the shoulders hung long green hair; the tail resembled that of the seal, but the extremities of the arms he could not see distinctly. 19. The old black-bearded monarch of the forest, and all the host of Tapio, hastened to listen. Gory stones these dark womenTurned sorrowfully; out of their breastsHung bleeding hearts, faint with much affliction.. Then Else surrendered herself and her duchy to him; but he would only accept her hand on condition that she should not ask his race. On one of these occasions a man was sent for who made a regular profession of finding water by the divining rod; there happened to be a large party staying at the house, and the whole company turned out to see the fun. Mni, the moon, stole two children from their parents, and carried them up to heaven. Among Semitic nations the mouse was also sacred. The terror inspired by the outburst of the thunder-storm is expressed in fable by the paralyzing effect of the eye of the cockatrice, the exhibition of the Gorgons countenance, and the waving of the glorious hand. However, still some doubted. . Weird harmonies broke in upon and overflowed the melody, then ebbed away into sobs of music, again to reunite into a continued undulating chant. Remain, and M. de Puget, to detect whether there was imposture in the man. This she dropped on the glass, and by the power of the worm, the glass was shivered, and the young flew away after their mother. 321-4. Some curious stories of the appearances of the sacred virgin companions of Ursula, and of the marvels wrought by their bones, occur in Caesarius of Heisterbachs gossiping Dialogue of Miracles. The swan was with the Greeks the bird of the Muses, and therefore also of Apollo. But not so dissenting religion. The name of the fish-woman is in German Meerfrau or Meriminni; in Danish, the Siren is Maremind; and in Icelandic and old Norse, Marmennill; in Irish she is the Merrow; with the Breton peasantry she is Marie-Morgan. She was also the goddess of love, and was resorted to by barren womenas the Venus of Quimperle in Brittany is, to this day, sought by those who have no children. $55.20, $69.00 As no such robbery had been committed, Aymar was turnedout of the house as an impostor. It may be well here to give an account of the authorities for this extraordinary story. Between these birds is a cross, with pellets at the end of each limb, and a pellet in each angle. Ceilings, joists, and architrave are of Sethym wood, the roof of ebony, which can never catch fire. On entering the town he ascertained by means ofhis rod that those whom he was pursuing had parted company. With her he lived forty years, which passed as an hour; on his return to earth all his old friends and relations were dead, or had forgotten him, and finding no rest there, he returned to his mountain elf-land. For some days all went well, and in the excitement of a return to his former occupations the compact he had made was forgotten. This Keltic fable of the Land beyond the Sea, to which the souls are borne after death, has engrafted itself on popular religion in England. $99.07, $116.55 Odin, in Northern Mythology, has mansions of cold and heat[43]; and Hells abode is thus described: In Niflheim she possesses a habitation protected by exceedingly high walls and strongly barred gates. shippd intill the land,As if I had never been such.. 1360, d. 1420). Cycnus having left his kingdom, accompanied by his sisters, was filling the verdant banks, and the river Eridanus, and the forest, with his complaints; when the human voice becomes shrill, and grey feathers conceal his hair. He declared that the eleven thousand had excited such enthusiasm in England, that their married relations had accompanied them in the vessels, with their children of all ages, and that all together had received the martyrs crown. In the Saga of Half and his knights is an account of a merman who was caught and kept a little while on land. Again, on another the winged figure is accompanied by the cross. As Sir Gardner Wilkinson remarks, it is precisely the god Nilus who is least often represented with this symbol in his hand[85], and the Nile key is an ascertained figure of different shape. The examination of the tombs of Golasecca proves in a most convincing, positive, and precise manner, that which the terramares of Emilia had only indicated, but which had been confirmed by the cemetery of Villanova; that above a thousand years before Christ, the cross was already a religious emblem of frequent employment[94].. And the reason of the prohibition of iron in the construction of the altar is given in the Mischnairon is used to shorten life, the altar to prolong it (Middoth 3, 4). It is this marvellous harp which was stolen by Jack when he climbed the bean-stalk to the upper world. This man spoke to Gudlief in the Norse tongue, and asked him whence he came. This was written about 851. Aphrodite, the Syrian Baalti, loved him so tenderly that the jealousy of Ares was aroused, and he sent a wild boar to gore him in the chase. The lightning flash reaches the barren, dead, and thirsty land; forth gush the waters of heaven, and the parched vegetation bursts once more into the vigour of life, restored after suspended animation. The abbot replied, Some have affirmed that they have heard a bitter crying and piping therein; whilst others have heard and seen nothing. Helgi observed that all their vessels were of silver and gold. Looking again through the small window, she observed the fingers of the hand flaming, but the thumb gave no light: this was because one of the inmates of the house was not asleep. 3) and St. Paulinus (Nat. Then the governor exclaimed, How dare you say that this money belonged to your parents when it dates back three hundred and seventy-seven years,[25]and is as old as the beginning of the reign of Decius, and it is utterly unlike our modern coinage? Aymar was then brought, staff in hand, into the garden, and conducted over the spots where lay the bills. Every succeeding hour the sick man became worse, and when the first glimpse of the morning appeared, Mr. Bunworth expired. [216] La Mort dArthure, compiled by Sir Thomas Malory; reprinted from the text of 1634 by Thomas Wright, iii., c.2,&c. [220] Villemarque, Poemes des Bardes Bretons du sixieme siecle, p. 298. Another litany, in the Dusseldorf library, extends the number to eleven: Ursula, Sencia, Gregoria, Pinnosa, Martha, Saula, Brittola, Saturnina, Rabacia, Saturia, Palladia. It symbolizes the eternal governance of the world, and to it the worshipper of Vishnu attributes as many virtues as does the devout Catholic to the Christian cross. This was, The Brig o Dread, na brader than a thread.. A man is enticed into their abode, where he unites with a woman of the underground race. He believed that he saw a vision of angels, and would have prostrated himself at their feet, had not one of them advanced and stayed him. We have analogous cases in Bleton and Angelique Cottin. In other parts of France, they pass as Dames Blanches, who, however, are not to be confused with the Teutonic white ladies, which are spirits of a different order. Die Historia von Melusina; Strasburg, 1506. Whan the time limited and ordeined of almighti god approched that the noble and goodly queue Beatrice should be delivered after the cours of nature, the false matrone aforsaid went and delibered in herselfe to execute and put in effecte her malignus or moste wicked purpose. ; Apollodor. The Mongol hordes were rushing in upon the west with devastating ferocity; Russia, Poland, Hungary, and the eastern provinces of Germany, had succumbed, or suffered grievously; and the fears of other nations were roused lest they too should taste the misery of a Mongolian invasion. Rats and mice have generally been considered sacred animals. He was a monkof St. Martin of Cologne, then of Fulda, and lastly of St. Albans, at Metz. I need only specify some of the most curious works which have appeared on the subject. The general superstition with regard to the spots in the moon may briefly be summed up thus: A man is located in the moon; he is a thief or Sabbath-breaker;[34]he has a pole over his shoulder, fromwhich is suspended a bundle of sticks or thorns. Then I asked if they knew where they were in their sleep, and what sort of dreams they had had; he answered that they had been oppressed with many fancies and wonderful dreams, different from those they were accustomed to in their chambers; and in the morning when they went out, in a short while they had clean forgotten their dreams and visions; wherefore he concluded that the whole matter was fancy.. $24.65, $29.00 . This the king read. The minor details, as, for instance, the trick with the hide, which is taken from the story of Dido, shall not detain us. ; ed. Apollo was called Smintheus, as has been stated already. ix. A third view was, that he would be merely a desperately wicked man, acting upon diabolical inspirations, just as the saints act upon divine inspirations. When the nurses returned, they found the cradle overturned, the child thrown out, and the ground covered with blood, as was also the dog, who they immediately concluded had killed the child. The manner of accounting for their death differs, but all the stories agree in regarding that death as mysterious. And as these three seasons owe all to the powerful influence of the Sun, we are told in the popular myth that the three brothers of Napoleon drew their authority from him, and received from him their kingdoms. xxv. He gives a report of a verbal examination of Aymar which is interesting. for the brilliant to-morrowThat dawns upon yonder bright shore! One surpassed the others in beauty, and she was their mistress. Then he enforced him much for to undoe the doore. In thank-offering for his birth she erected and endowed the convent of Malliers; and, as a place of residence for her child, built the strong castle of Favent. But Bran smote off the head of a hostile chief, and cast the bloody head into the bowl, when it burst, and its virtues ceased. But since it has so ought to be The crew, six in number, took it within their boat; but superstition getting the better of curiosity, they carefully disentangled it from the lines and from a hook which had accidentally fastened in its body, and returned it to its native element. That of Rabbi Joel was a translation from an Arabic version made by Nasr-Allah in the twelfth century, whilst Simeon Seths was a translation of the Persian Kalilah andDimnah. Mary and George, in the reign of Henry I. Toward the heed of that forest (he writes) is the cytee of Polombe, and above the cytee is a great mountayne, also clept Polombe. They scourge themselves into action with a sword, lap the blood of the slain, and fly gorged with blood for forty years. He was blessed with a daughter of singular beauty, named Ursula, whose hand Conan desired to obtain. In his pastures lives Ken-Khan, at whose court was Brother Andrew, whom I met on my way back. But the fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the childrens teeth are set on edge. According to another version, Solomon went to his fountain, where he found the daemon Sackar, whom he captured by a ruse, and chained down. One of their number, Malchus, in the disguise of a physician, went to the town to obtain victuals. Cycnus becomes a new bird; but he trusts himself neither to heavens nor the air. Aymar applied his rod to each of the prisoners in succession: it turned upon the hunchback. This the huntsman did, and he lived happily with the beautiful damsel for fifteen years. He regretted that he had made this present, when some years later war broke out between the King of Ireland and himself. From this the Romans made the name Latona, which they gave to his mother. Who that has visited Snowdon has not seen the grave of Llewellyns faithful hound Gellert, and been told by the guide the touching story of the death of the noble animal? iii. The air was fragrant with the breath of the fir-woods and the luscious exhalations of the flowery acacias. Lyrics: In the Greek fable, a peasant liberates an eagle from the clutches of a dragon. She listened with attention, and at the conclusion of his story, recommended him to remount his horse, and gallop out of the forest, and return to Poictiers, as though unconscious of what had taken place. These stories reaching the ears of the new bishop, he sent for the archdeacon, and without properly investigating the charges, concluding he was guilty, deprived him of his offices. All the members of this tribe bear the caudal appendage, and, as Oriental imagination is given to exaggeration, I was assured that the tails sometimes attained the length of two feet. He slew it; then came another serpent, and finding its companion dead, it fetched a root by which it restored life to the dead serpent. In whateverland he travelled he spoke its language, and when he spoke Saxon, it was like a native Saxon. Four thousand years must roll away ere the Redeemer shall open the gate to Adam, closed by his disobedience. All over England the peasants believe still that the spirits of unbaptized children wander in it, and that the wail at their doors and windows are the cries of the little souls condemned to journey till the last day. But sesame is the name of a well-known eastern plant,sesamum orientatelso that probably in the original form of the Persian tale absorbed into the Arabian Nights, a flower was employed to give admission to the mountain. how it expresses the passions of love and hate! Almost exactly the same legend is related by the Jews of Abraham, who, they say, was cruelly tortured by Nimrod, and miraculously preserved by God[58]. Mosheim is false again in asserting that no one prior to the Reformation regarded the thing as either incredible or disgraceful. Letter from Renard, the publisher, to M. Francois Valentyn, minister of the Gospel at Dort, late superintendent of the churches in the colonies, dated Amsterdam, Dec. 17, 1716. The identity, then, ofthe mother of Napoleon with the Greek Leto and the Latin Latona, is established conclusively. [171] Navarrette, Coll, de Documents, i. p. 244. Three labourers once lost their way in a wood. [95] Stephens, Central America. The seven swam to the shore and sought their clothes. Dionysius of Antioch (ninth century) told the story in Syrian, and Photius of Constantinople reproduced it, with the remark that Mahomet had adopted it into the Koran. This creature appears like a woman as far down as her waist, with breast and bosom like a woman, long hands, and soft hair, the neck and head in all respects like those of a human being. Brit. Rhodante swallows a poisoned goblet of wine, and lies as one dead, deprived of sense and motion. He plucked the little heather-bells, and held them before him; the tears rolled from his eyes, and moistened his thin and wasted hands. In the mysticism of the Druids the stalk or long arm of the cross represented the way of life, and the three lobes of the clover-leaf, or the short arms of the cross, symbolized the three conditions of the spirit-world, Heaven, Purgatory, and Hell. But from that hour her heart is filled with yearning love for the youth whose life she has preserved. Paul von Eitzen, doctor of the Holy Scriptures, and Bishop of Schleswig,[7] related as true for some years past, that when he was young, having studied at Wittemberg, he returned home to his parents in Hamburg in the winter of the year 1547, and that on the following Sunday, in church, he observed a tall man, with his hair hanging over his shoulders, standing barefoot, during the sermon, over against thepulpit, listening with deepest attention to the discourse, and, whenever the name of Jesus was mentioned, bowing himself profoundly and humbly, with sighs and beating of the breast. One of the fellows present shook the sleeper, but could not wake her, so he moved her to another place. But the middle ages was the date of the full development of the superstition, and the divining rod was believed to have efficacy in discovering hidden treasures, veins of precious metal, springs of water, thefts, and murders. In the year 1599, in December, a reliable person wrote from Brunswick to Strasburg that the same mentioned strange person had been seen alive at Vienna in Austria, and that he had started for Poland and Dantzig; and that he purposed going on to Moscow. [122] Wolf, Beitrage zur Deutschen Mythologie. . It has been inferred from this curious plaster representation, that the seven may have suffered under Decius, A.D. 250, and have been buried in the afore-mentioned cave; whilst the discovery and translation of their relics under Theodosius, in 479, may have given rise to the fable. I confess myself unable to accomplish this. Rei-schert, L., Lebens-Geschichte u. Martyrtod der N. Ursula. Cologne, 1837, 8vo. They live in a state of complete nudity, and seek only to satisfy their brute appetites. Her next son Anthony, had long claws on his fingers, and was covered with hair; the next again had but a single eye. WHO, that has looked on Gustave Dors marvellous illustrations to this wild legend, can forget the impression they made upon his imagination? We He had upon his head long green hair, much resembling the coarse weeds which the mighty storms scatter along the margin of the strand. "Of all the money e'er I had, He even approached the walls of the city, and with his exhalations poisoned all who were near. Yet this was the tenet of our Keltic forefathers, and it has maintained itself in English Protestantism, so as to divest the doctrine of the resurrection of the body of its grasp on the popular mind. That it is the same as Ceridwens cauldron is not improbable. Then the man without the heart said to his wife, Go to the place where the dead lie, there you will find a purse, in that purse is her soul; shake the purse over the dead womans bones, and she will come to life. The woman did as she was ordered, and the mother of the Samojed revived. One day the Count and his retinue hunted a boar in the forest of Colombiers, and distancing his servants, Emmerick found himself alone in the depths of the wood with Raymond. Still does the Hrselberg go by the name of the Venusberg, a name frequently used in the middle ages, but without its locality being defined. Sometimes the bottoms of the vessels were rudely engraved with crosses. The Icelandic Sagas teem with similar stories; and they abound in all European household tales. I believe I satisfied my own mind that the good man had sat his off, and my nurse assured me that such was the case with those of sedentary habits. Frising., lib. Avalon is the Isle of Applesa name reminding one of the Garden of the Hesperides in the far western seas, with its tree of golden apples in the midst. He is first heard of as purveyor of provisions for the army at Constantinople, where he assumed the profession of Arianism; from thence, having been detected in certain frauds, he was obliged to fly, and take refuge in Cappadocia.