In ancient days, according to the Thringian Chronicles, bitter cries and long-drawn moans were heard issuing from this cavern; and at night, wild shrieks and the burst of diabolical laughter would ring from it over the vale, and fill the inhabitants with terror. Having finished his confession, he prostrated himself before the bishop and asked for absolution. But the animals pursued him even thus, and when he was taken down, it was found that they had eaten the flesh and skin off his bones. Grimm has a story to this effect: a lad obtains a bow which will bring down any thing he aims at, and a fiddle which, when scraped, will make all who hear it dance. Maurice Connor, the blind piper, could play an air which could set every thing, alive or dead, capering. This initiation was regarded as a new birth; and those who had once become joined members were regarded as elect, regenerate, separate from the rest of mankind, who lay in darkness and ignorance. Suggest Another Goodbye Song! The old black-bearded monarch of the forest, and all the host of Tapio, hastened to listen. with their dresses, consisting of doves feathers, lying at the side. There are, however, so many varieties of crosses among the urns of Golasecca, and ingenuity seems to have been so largely exercised in diversifying this one sign, without recurring to others, that I cannot but believe the sign itself had a religious signification. Thomas met with a strange lady, of elfin race, beneath Eildon Tree, who led him into the underground land, where he remained with her for seven years. They waited some time; but at last, tired of the delay, they returned in the direction of the spot where they remembered to have seen him last. 2), Brahma is represented crowned with clouds, with lilies for eyes, with four handsone holding the necklace of creation; another the Veda; a third, the chalice of the source of life; the fourth, the fiery cross. This account was soon translated into other languages, and spread the fable through mediaeval Europe. We find rhabdomancy a popular form of divination among the Greeks, and also among the Romans. Yesterday, no one dared pronounce the name of Jesus, and now it is on every ones lips. And this aged prelate was Joseph of Arimathaea, the first bishop of Christendom. Then other angels appeared bearing Scandies, and a spear from which fell drops of blood, and these drops were collected by an angel in a box. He looked through the keyhole, and to his dismay beheld her in the water, her lower extremities changed into the tail of a monstrous fish or serpent. cxiv. The second day, he was bound to a wheel set with blades of knives and swords. The island was densely overgrown with wood, and the people went into the forest. The seven sleepers were natives of Ephesus. This looks to me as though the shipping into the other land were not regarded merely as a figure of speech, but as a reality. After this, Sennacherib, king of the Arabians and Assyrians, marched a large army against Egypt; whereupon the Egyptian warriors refused to assist him; and the priest being reduced to a strait, entered the temple, and bewailed before the image the calamities he was in danger of suffering. M. In the German story, the husband is weary with the taunts of those around at having married a water-sprite, and bids her return to her element. There is a Norse Thttr of a certain Helgi Thorirs son, which is, in its present form, a production of the fourteenth century. They knew nothing more about him than to say, We found our ancestors weeping and wailing over him in this way at this feast that is called after him Tammuzi. My own opinion is, that this festival which they hold in commemoration of Tammuz is an ancient one, and has maintained itself till now, whilst the story connected with him has been forgotten, owing to the remoteness of his age, so that no one of these Ssabians at the present day knows what his story was, nor why they lament over him. Ibn Wahshiya then goes on to speak of a festival celebrated by the Christians towards the end of the month Nisan (April) in honour of S. George, who is said to have been several times put to death by a king to whom he had gone to preach Christianity, and each time he was restored to life again, but at the last died. The knight of the Grail prevailed, and slew Frederick. The Icelandic Sagas teem with similar stories; and they abound in all European household tales. Ammon, Apis, Dionysos are sun-gods; Isis, Io, Artemis are moon-goddesses, and are all horned. They found it in the blood struck on the lintel and the door-posts of the houses of the Israelites in Egypt. S. George at once called to him the servant who wrote these memoirs, and commanded him, after his death, to take his body and will to Palestine. This martyr, whose name Eusebius does not give, has been generally supposed to be S. George, and if so, this is nearly all we know authentic concerning him. Some while after, the king dug the pool of Bethesda on the spot. They came ashore at the spot pointed out by the man with the stick. 714. At the little town of Bagnols, he was confronted with the host and hostess of a tavernwhere he and his comrades had slept, and they swore to his identity, and accurately described his companions: their description tallied with that given by the children of the gardener. Nonnus Dionysius (v. 363 et seq.) With a cry of joy he awoke; and on his breast lay the deed which had made over his soul to Satan, obtained from the evil one by the mercy of the sacred Mother of God. This having been done, he had his little child on his arm, and was standing in his doorway, to have a sight of the Lord Jesus Christ. A similar story is told of the Mauseschloss in the Hirschberger lake. There the natives tell that there is a stone of such wondrous power, that the possessor can walk invisible, can, at a wish, provide himself with as much stock-fish and corn-brandy as he may desire, can raise the dead, cure disease, and break bolts and bars. Then he gave her the clothes, and returned to his companion. In the morning, as he enterd the hallWhere his picture hung against the wall,A sweat, like death, all over him came,For the rats had eaten it out of the frame.. A second time was he slain, and again did God restore him to life. When the boat came alongside of the quay, the swan ceased to row, and the emperor saw that a knight armed cap-a-pie sat in the skiff, and round his neck hung a ribbon to which was attached a note. Don Ioacos II. The Tzendales were probably never conquered. But there are not only evil swanwomen, there are also good ones as well. We must have a keener contest, said the king, taking an arrow and flushing with anger; then he laid the arrow on the string and drew his bow to the farthest, so that the horns were nearly brought to meet. There is nothing Roman in this, but something very much the opposite. So Geyti and the king try a swimming-match. ii. Later than the fifteenth century, we find no theories propounded concerning the terrestrial Paradise, though there are many treatises on the presumed situation of the ancient Eden. From the broken bones in the middens, we learn that the roebuck, the stag, the wild boar, then ranged the forests, that cattle, pigs, sheep, goats, and dogs were domesticated; that these people had two kinds of horses, one a powerful animal, the other smallboned, and that horseflesh was eaten by the inhabitants of the terramares. The Egyptian sun-god was born at the summer solstice and died at the winter solstice, when processions went round the temple seeking him, seven times. He discovered the places where they had slept, and indicated the chairs or benches on which they had sat. Another was taken near Rocca de Sintra, as related by Damian Goes. In the dusky pine-tree forestSat the eldest son of Kalew,Singing neath a branching fir.As from swelling throat he chanted,Danced the fir-cones on the branches;Every leaflet was astir.All the larches thrilld, and budding,Burst to tufts of silky green;Waved the pine-tops in the sunset,Steepd in lustrous purple sheen.Catkins dangled on the hazels,On the oak the acorns sprouted,And the black-thorn blossomd white,Sudden wreathed in snowy tresses,Fragrant in the evening glory,Scenting all the moonlit night.. For as the child is in its mothers womb living and not suffering, so have we lived without suffering, fast asleep. And having thus spoken, they bowedtheir heads, and their souls returned to their Maker. The rod is generally of hazel, and is forked like a Y; the forefingers are placed against the diverging arms of the rod, and the elbows are brought back against the side; thus the implement is held in front of the operator, delicately balanced before the pit of the stomach at a distance of about eight inches. In 855 Ethelwolf visited Rome, it is true, but was not consecrated by the existing Pope, whilst Charles the Bald was anointed by John VIII. Angelic songs are swellingOer earths green fields and oceans wave-beat shore:How sweet the truth those blessed strains are tellingOf that new life when sin shall be no more! These quarries go by the name ofterramares. With powerful tools and services, along with expert support and education, we help creative entrepreneurs start, manage, and scale their businesses. The former of these is published in the great work of the Bollandists, who fix the date of the event in 538. The Welsh Prince Llewellyn had a noble deerhound, Gellert, whom he trusted to watch the cradle of his baby son whilst he himself was absent. 48.). **Uisce beatha Pronounced ishka bah-ha, English-speaking countries simply took the first worduisce and mispronounced it, giving it the phonetically written name Whiskey. By his victory the earth is relieved from her peril. Epimenides was reckoned one of the seven sages by those who exclude Periander. The excavations to the north led to the summer apartment. In the Roman army was a hero, Salvius Brabon by name, descended from Frankus, son of Hector of Troy. [169] Voyage towards the South Pole, p. 143, quoted by Goss: Romance of Nat Hist., 2nd Series. The council broke up, and lords and ladies were scattered along the banks of the Meuse. . Then he rose from the water as a little bird; but she soared after him as a hawk. age, when their real signification was lost, they were anthropomorphized into a sacred caste of priests. But it was destitute of mariners, itself seeming to live and move. As in his time there was a great famine and distress, the Swedes made great offerings of sacrifice at Upsala. And ye shalle undrestond, that Seynt Johne bid make his grave there in his Lyf, and leyd himself there-inne all quyk. In order to undergo the process of conversion, a few little arrangements were rendered necessary, to divest the story of its sensuous character, and purify it. Thus, beside one of the Christian inscriptions at Phile is seen both a Maltese cross and a crux ansata. The Emperor Decius, who persecuted the Christians, having come to Ephesus, ordered the erection of temples in the city, that all might come and sacrifice before him; and he commanded that the Christians should be sought out and given their choice, either to worship the idols, or to die. Know that three hundred years are rolld away Since at my feet my lovely Phoenix lay., Three hundred years! He comes to a torrent about which flew scorched birds, which were souls, numerous as flies. Then the wind dies away, and he comes to a land where the waters do not flow. Archbishop AElfric (d. 1006) alludes to the story in his Homilies S. Bernard also, in his Depreratio ad gloriosam Virginem Mariam Vincent of Beauvais, in his wonderful Speculum Historiale S. Bonaventura, as a passionate devotee to the Virgin, could not omit it from his Speculum Beatae Manse; Jacques de Voragine inserts it in his Golden Legend, and Albertus Magnus includes it in his Biblia B. Mariae Virginis. It is again mentioned by the great German poet of the twelfth century, Hartmann von der Aue, and by Konrad von Wurzburg, in the thirteenth century. In the battle of Stamfordbridge an arrow from a skilled archer penetrated the windpipe of the king, and it is supposed to have sped, observes the Saga writer, from the bow of Hemingr, then in the service of the English monarch. The root of life and the red blossoms lay on the ground before me, and in my power. With this, naturally enough, the lady who is speaking restores the corpse to life. The following night and day he spent in prayer, and on the sixth day he appeared before Diocletian walking and unhurt. On the seventh day he drank two cups, whereof the one was prepared to make him mad, the other to poison him, without experiencing any ill effects. Now, this word smiris is used by Isaiah alone as the name of a plant. Procopius declares that this tradition was widely spread, and that it was reported to him by many people. Once upon a time a shepherd was driving his flock over the Ilsenstein, when, wearied with his tramp, he leaned upon his staff. The story of long sleepers and the number seven connected with it is ancient enough, and dates from heathen mythology. It is mandatory to procure user consent prior to running these cookies on your website. It is the dead and parched vegetation which is symbolized by Glaucus, and the earth still and without the energy of life which is represented by the lady in the Lai dEliduc. The toast itself is to speak with heart, about the person and the impact their life may have had on those they loved. Thereupon the image of the Sun began to bewail Tammuzi, and the idols to weep; and the image of the Sun uttered a lament over Tammuz and narrated his history, whilst the idols all wept from the setting of the sun till its rising at the end of that night. . [213] Grimm, Deutsche Sagen, 1866, ii p. 267. Above the head of the deity is the triangle, or symbol of the Trinity. Do you think to impose on the old men and sages of Ephesus? Gherghis, or El Khoudi, as he is called by them, lived at the same time as the Prophet. Several persons of that place, who have heard it, are positive of it, and hand it from father to son; and say that, even when the siege came on, many soldiers and men of honour, who were there, affirmed it. We disguised our certain expectations of the event from you, lest it should throw a cloud over the cheerful reception which was your due[161]. This is the origin of the fabulousinvasion of France by the allied armies of the North. It is hard to say whether they have any religion; but in all probability they have none, as they readily adopt any one which they are taught. Then said the king, Take a nut and set it on the head of your brother Bjorn, and aim at it from precisely the same distance. The palace in which our Supereminency resides, is built after the pattern of the castle built by the Apostle Thomas for the Indian king Gundoforus. The powers of nature are so mysterious and inscrutable that we must be cautious in limiting them, under abnormal conditions, to the ordinary laws of experience. 9) was perhaps the first to introduce it to Europe. Then the persecutor had him burned, and his ashes scattered in the Tigris. It is more than a coincidence that Osiris by the cross should give life eternal to the Spirits of the Just; that with the cross Thorr should smite the head of the Great Serpent, and bring to life those who were slain; that beneath the cross the Muysca mothers should lay their babes, trusting by that sign to secure them from the power of evil spirits; that with that symbol to protect them, the ancient people of Northern Italy should lay them down in the dust[105].