The chime of a village church struck sweetly on his ear, satiated with Bacchanalian songs; and he hurried down the mountain to the church which called him. In the mean while the day of ordeal approached, and Else fell into despair. The same story-root remains, but it is varied according to the temperament of the narrator or the exigencies of localization. 1844.). This is probably the ancient form of the Scandinavian myth, and the King of gloom reigning over his gold in the cairn, was only dragonized when the Norse became acquainted with the dragon myths of other nations. A considerable number of childrens bones were exhumed, and some of these belonged to infants but a few months old. Jacobus, Archbishop of Antioch, a Briton by birth, had gone to Rome to visit Cyriacus the Pope, but had learned, on his arrival, that his holiness had been last seen clambering the Alps in the train of eleven thousand virgins of entrancing beauty. Don Fernando sprang joyfully on shore, and hastened to his ancestral mansion. His habits are barbarous. In these Northern mythologies Apollo is replaced by Sigurd, Sigfried, and Beowulf. It became popular through the Gesta Romanorum, a collection of tales made by the monks for harmless reading, in the fourteenth century. M. XL Virginum,And, lastly, in the twelfth century the chronicle of Rodulf (written 1117) reckons the virgin martyrs as twelve. The nun, Elizabeth of Schonau, was dead. The legend, as told by Voragine, is this:, George, a tribune, was born in Cappadocia, and came to Lybia, to the town called Silene, near which was a pond infested by a monster, which had many times driven back an armed host that had come to destroy him. He was succeeded in his office by his son Frimutelle, who transgressed, by loving a damsel, Floramie by name. But when his beard has wound itself thrice round the table, then will the emperor awake with his knights, and rush forth to release Germany from its bondage, and exalt it to the first place among the kingdoms of Europe. WHO, that has looked on Gustave Dors marvellous illustrations to this wild legend, can forget the impression they made upon his imagination? Without the financial help of people like yourself, this site wouldn't be able to continue running. They (the contemporaries of Yan-bushadh) tell that the idols in the land of Babel bewailed Yanbushadh singly in all their temples a whole night long till morning. He ordered the four to be stood in a line, and then he placed his foot on that of the first. While he was lamenting, sleep fell upon him; and it appeared to him in a vision that the god stood by and encouraged him, assuring him that he should suffer nothing disagreeable in meeting the Arabian army, for he would himself send assistants to him. P- 346. At Castione, not far from the station of Borgo S. Donino, on the line between Parma and Piacenza, is a convent built on a mound. It was supposed by others that the villa had belonged to a Christian, and that the execution of his design in the pavement had been entrusted to pagans, who, through ignorance, had substituted the head of Neptune for that of the Saviour. The zealous Chaldaean devoted his life to their translation, and thus created a Nabathaeo-Arabic library, of which three complete works, to say nothing of the fragments of a fourth, have descended to our days[55]. One of these is the Book of Nabathaean Agriculture, written by Kuthami the Babylonian. I believe that the imagination is the principal motive force in those who use the divining rod; but whether it is so solely, I am unable to decide. After a while, however, his absence was observed, and the party paused, thinking he would rejoin them. In the British Museum is a volume of French romances, containing, among others, LYstoire du Chevalier au Signe, told in not less than 3000 lines. A curious little book,[11]written against the quackery of Paracelsus, by Leonard Doldius, a Nrnberg physician, and translated into Latin and augmented, by Andreas Libavius, doctor and physician of Rotenburg, alludes to the same story, and gives the Jew a new name nowhere else met with. This representation, interpreted by those who knew the meaning, signified The Life to come. This was the occasionofa great number of pagans embracing Christianity, the more so because other characters announced that the temple would be destroyed when this character came to light. Socrates gives further particulars: Whilst they were demolishing and despoiling the temple of Serapis, they found characters, engraved on the stone, of the kind called hieroglyphics, the which characters had the figure of the cross. And the same is told of Baldur. I believe the origin of these stories to be a heathen human sacrifice made in times of famine. when using it to accompany his Masonic lyric "The Farewell. ii. There the recorder publicly read his sentence, which had been delivered by thirty judges. When the bookseller had recovered from the astonishment which I had produced by my question, he stoutly repudiated the charge. Please. You will easily find the way, because my footprints scorched the soil as I left Paradise. They came to the tent, and the man secreted himself, but the damsel became invisible. Whilst governor, he encouraged the fishery of these fishes; and after having had about two hundred painted of those which were brought to his home by the Indians of Amboine and the neighbouring isles, as well as by the Dutch there settled, he formed of them two collections, the originals of which were brought by his son to M. Scott the Elder, who was then chief advocate, or prime minister, of the Company General of the East Indies at Amsterdam. The version told in the Netherlands much resembled that related at St. Albans, only that the Jew, seeing the people dragging Christ to his death, exclaims,, Atends moi! 89, the origin of the purgatory is thus described:, Holy byschoppes some tyme ther were,That tawgte me of Goddes lore.In Irlonde preched Seyn Patryke,In that londe was non hym lyke:He prechede Goddes worde full wyde,And tolde men what shullde betyde.Fyrste he preched of Heven blysse,Who ever go thyder may ryght nowgt mysse:Sethen he preched of Hell pyne,Howe wo them ys that cometh therinne:And then he preched of purgatory,As he fonde in hisstory,But yet the folke of the contreBeleved not that hit mygth be;And seyed, but gyf hit were so,That eny non myth hymself go,And se alle that, and come ageyn,Then wolde they beleve fayn., Vexed at the obstinacy of his hearers, S. Patrick besought the Almighty to make the truth manifest to the unbelievers; whereupon, God spakke to Saynt Patryke thoBy nam, and badde hym with Hym go:He ladde hym ynte a wyldernesse,Wher was no reste more ne lesse,And shewed that he might seInte the erthe a pryve entre:Hit was yn a depe dyches ende.What mon He sayde, that wylle hereyn wende,And dwelle theryn a day and a nyght,And hold his byleve and ryght,And come ageyn that he ne dwelle,Mony a mervayle he may of telle.And alle tho that doth thys pylgrymage,I shalle hem graunt for her wage,Whether he be sqwyer or knave,Other purgatorye shalle he non have., Thereupon S. Patrick, he ne stynte ner day ne night, till he had built there a fayr abbey, and stocked it with pious canons. 8vo. This design was, however, rudely interrupted by a monstrous cross measuring 19 feet 8 inches by 13 feet, with its head towards the south, and its foot at the head of a flight of marble steps descending into what we were unable to decide whether it was a bath or a vestibule. The comptroller of the province himself bandaged the sorcerers eyes, and led him by the hand from place to place. The mother of the Samojed saw that they were without hearts, so she went to the lake where swam the six maidens; she stole one dress, and would not restore it till the maiden had promised to recover the hearts which were in the air. Probably, some one more acquainted with Sanskrit literature than myself, and with better access to its unpublished stores of fable and legend, will some day light on an early Indian tale corresponding to that so prevalent among other branches of the same family. Perceval was the son of a poor widow in Wales, brought up by her in a forest, far removed from all warlike images. Henry de Knyghton, in his history, however, asserts that it was not the Apostle of Ireland, but an abbot Patrick, to whom the revelation of purgatory was made; and John of Brompton says the same. Then the second son of Kalew goes to a birchwood, and sings there. At the very first note of that tune the brogues began shaking upon the feet of all who heard it, old or young; then the feet began going, going from under them, and at last up and away with them, dancing like mad, whisking here, there, and every where, like a straw in a storm:there was no halting while the music lasted. Look! exclaimed the hare; his Majesty is trembling with rage at you!. The ground of the cross was white; the limbs were filled with cuttie, lobsters, eels, oysters, and fish, swimming as though in their natural element; but the centre, where the arms intersected, was occupied by a gigantic bust of Neptune with his trident. A young monk of Fulda having conceived for her a violent passion, which she returned with ardor, she deserted her parents, dressed herself in male attire, and in the sacred precincts of Fulda divided her affections between the youthful monk and the musty books of the monastic library. The twins reply that she shall have-them again, if she can behold them without laughing. On consideration, I closed my eyes whilst the ring was oscillating over gold, and on opening them I found that it had become stationary. Thereupon the elephant poked his proboscis into the water, and muttered a fervent prayer. Uttering a piercing cry, she rushed to the door of the room the beggar had entered, and locked it. Those who heard him were perplexed by his familiarity with foreign tongues and places. Moreover, the sites of the patriarchates, and the dignity conferred on that of St. Thomas, are indications of a Nestorian bias. the story purports to be nothing more than a religious novel; but one audacious copyist has ventured to assert that it is all fact, and that the details are taken down from the lips of those who heard them from Eirek himself. He had never beheld charms equal to hers, and the susceptible heart of the youth was completely captivated by the fair unknown. He had a son named Carl-Ynach, whom he banished for some misdemeanour. [39] Girald. Otto wrote a chronicle up to the date 1156, and he relates that in 1145 the Catholic Bishop of Cabala visited Europe to lay certain complaintsbefore the Pope. 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. The following circumstance happened to me yesterday evening, he says: M. It was supposed that this hole gave admittance to Purgatory; and the popular but faulty derivation of Hrsel wasHre, die SeeleHark, the Souls! Break my command, and I shall withdraw my beams from you at night, and your bodies will be consumed with perpetual sun., The elephant, after a short meditation, said, Friend! The Grail is not a sacred Christian vessel, but a mysterious relic of a past heathen rite. [189] Washington Irving, Chronicles of Wolferts Roost, and other Papers. It was Gog and Magog come to slaughter, and the times of Antichrist were dawning. By chance he arrives at a fountain, in which are bathing1three maidens. He soon learned to talk. . If Solomon desired to possess himself of the worm, he must find the nest of the moor-hen, and cover it with a plate of glass, so that the mother bird could not get at her young without breaking the glass. Thence arose the classic fable of the peasant, who, as he slept, was bitten by a fly. Leonardo Dati, a Florentine poet of the fifteenth century, composed a geographical treatise in verse, entitled Della Sfera; and it is in Asia that he locates the garden:, Asia e le prima parte dove lhuomoSendo innocente stava in Paradiso.. Then began the wailing for Osiris, which lasted four days; this was followed by the seeking, and this again by the finding of the God. The Eastern patriarch at once followed the successor of S. Peter, and reached Cologne on the morrow of the great massacre. They came ashore at the spot pointed out by the man with the stick. Of all the comrades that e'er I had He pipes them into the Tannenberg; then the farmers again button up their pockets, whereupon the little man pipes all their children away[122]. Ahriman a dragon. Good night and joy be with you all, (The final verse is the first verse in the Scots version. But unfortunately for the truth of the legend, its pedigree can be traced with the utmost precision. Hjuki and Bil, therefore, signify nothing more than the waxing and waning of the moon, and the water they are represented as bearing signifies the fact that the rainfall depends on the phases of the moon. In this we have the rudiment of another myth, that of the musical instrument which, when played, sets every thing a-capering. Wunderbare Ge-schichte von der edeln und schonen Melusina, welche eine Tochter des Konigs Helmus und ein Meer-wunder gewesen istNurnberg, without date; reprinted in Marbachs Volksbiicher. Leipzig, 1838. After the service he wasquestioned, and he related his story. It had on its head long black, coarse hair, very similar to thefucus filiformis;this hair hung over the shoulders. He places horizontally between his forefingers a rod of any kind given to him, or picked up in the road, of any sort of wood except elder, fresh or dry, not always forked, but sometimes merely bent. One of his poems contains the history of Bran the Blessed, in which the mystic vessel occupies a prominent position. Thomas instantly arose, left his house, and followed the animals into the forest, from which he never returned. Such is the beautiful story. He breaks his engagement, and loses her. the rocky fragments tumbled,Closed him in abysmal gloom.Sixty years passed by, ere minersToiling, hundred fathoms deep,Broke upon the shaft where restedThat poor miner in his sleep.As the gold-grains lie untarnishedIn the dingy soil and sand,Till they gleam and flicker, stainless,In the diggers sifting hand;As the gem in virgin brillianceRests, till ushered into day;So uninjured, uncorrupted,Fresh and fair the body lay.And the miners bore it upward,Laid it in the yellow sun;Up, from out the neighboring houses,Fast the curious peasants run.Who is he? with eyes they question;Who is he? they ask aloud;Hush! 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. Their mother laughs at their comical gestures, and they vanish (Popol-Vuh, b. ii. In the midst of the dismay reigning in the breasts of the good Catholics at this untoward discovery, appeared, most opportunely, an ecstatic nun, Elizabeth by name, who resided in the convent of Schonau. The old man, on his return to his ship, was caught by a tempest, whirled out once more to sea, and saw no more of the unknown island. 24), and that the Boii brought the head into their temples, where they cleansed it and adorned it with gold, and then used it on festivals for a sacred vessel, out of which to make drink-offerings. In Kuthamis age the old deity was apparently misappreciated, and had suffered, in consequence, a reincarnation in Yanbushadh, of whom a similar story was told, and who received similar worship, because he was in fact one with Tammuz. Whether youd like to pay your respects, give a memento to celebrate Whatever your beliefs, saying goodbye your way is important. Once again will he revisit the hill, and that will be on the eve of Judgment. In 1245, on S. Georges day, Frederic of Austria instituted an order of knighthood under his patronage; and its banner, white charged with a blood-red cross, in battle floated alongside of that of the empire. Then he was ware of a swan floating on the water, drawing a boat by a silken band fastened round its neck. The historical evidence on which the tale rests is, however, too slender for us to admit for it more than the barest claim to be more than myth. How much more then were they astonished at learning that, the whole time of their absence, those who remained within the house had heard the moaning and clapping of hands even louder and more distinct than before they had gone out; and no sooner was the door of the room closed on them, than they again heard the same mournful sounds. The rushing vapour is the roc of the Arabian Nights, which broods over its great luminous egg, the sun, and which haunts the sparkling valley of diamonds, the starry sky. If a myth, I say, for who can say for certain that it is not true? I need only specify some of the most curious works which have appeared on the subject. Next day he was given poison to drink without its affecting him. It led him up the mountain to the cave, and as it went flowers bloomed upon the soil, and a radiant track was left for Tanhuser to follow. [88] Dognee, Les Symboles Antiques, LCEuf. Then he ran off with the Sampo, and had nearly got it to the land of light, when the dwellers in Pohjola awoke, and pursued and fought him for the ravished treasure, which, in the struggle, fell into the sea and was lost; again reminding us of the classic tale of Orpheus. The names indicate as much. A third in the same collection bears the same three principal figures as the first. This romance was commenced by Chretien at the request of Phillip of Alsace, Count of Flanders; it was continued by Gauthier de Denet, and finished by Manessier, towards the close of the twelfth century. This organ is smooth. How the Abomination of Desolation can be considered as set up in a Church where everysanctuary is adorned with all that can draw the heart to the Crucified, and raise the thoughts to the imposing ritual of Heaven, is a puzzle to me. At the close of the tenth century lived Hatto, once abbot of Fulda, where he ruled the monks with great prudence for twelve years, and afterwards Bishop of Mayence. Freya, or Holda, leads an army of mice, and Odin a multitude of rats. The shamrock of Ireland derives its sacredness from its affecting the same form. In an ancient shaft of FalunYear by year a body lay,God-preserved, as though a treasure,Kept unto the waking day.Not the turmoil, nor the passions,Of the busy world oerhead,Sounds of war, or peace rejoicings,Could disturb the placid dead.Once a youthful miner, whistling,Hewed the chamber, now his tomb:Crash! It is possible that some portions of the story of Tammuz may be true, but I have my doubts concerning other parts of it, owing to the distance of his time from ours., Thus writes Kuthami the Babylonian, and his translator adds:, Says Abu Bekr Ahmed ibn Wahshiya. It curiously enough appears on the dress of a fossor, as a sort of badge of his office, on one of the paintings in the Roman catacombs. There, in radiant halls, dwelt the spirits of the departed, ever blooming and beautiful, ever laughing and gay. M. Vir-gines, or the eleven martyr-virgins, and the M. have been mistaken in a later age for a numeral. But for forty-two years he lay in the dungeon nourished and invigorated by the sacred vessel which was in his possession. I own, sir, that I was struck with astonishment at the sight of this work, the engravings of which closely resemble the fishes I have seen during my life, and which, or some of which, I have had the pleasure of eating during the thirteen years I resided at Amboine, from which I returned with the fleet in 1716. .