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. This edition was first published in 1877. [7] Paul v. Eitzen was born January 25, 1522, at Hamburg; in 1562 he was appointed chief preacher for Schleswig, and died February 25, 1598. Then the elephants sent out exploring parties in search of water. O Pilot, the great and the glorious,That sittest in garments so white,Oer death and oer hell The Victorious,The Way and the Truth afid the Light,Speak, speak to the darkness appalling,And bid the mad turmoil to cease:For, hark I the good Angels are callingMy soul to the haven of Peace. The might and dominion of this prince, who had replaced the Tartar chief in the popular creed as Prester John, was of course greatly exaggerated, and was supposed to extend across Arabia and Asia to the wall of China. There, in radiant halls, dwelt the spirits of the departed, ever blooming and beautiful, ever laughing and gay. He who was awake saw a bee come out of the mouth of the sleeper, cross a stream of water on a straw, run into a hole, and then return and disappear into the mouth of his friend. This reviving power is attributed in mythology to the rain as well. 4758. This king, years before, had gathered all the treasures that he had obtained in a long life of piracy, and had suffered himself to be buried alive with his ill-gotten wealth. Every Good Friday a white dove descended from heaven, bearing a white oblation which it laid before the Grail. Towards the year 900 of our era, a descendant of those ancient Babylonian families who had fled to the marshes of Wasith and of Bassora, where their posterity still dwell, was struck with profound admiration for the works of his ancestors, whose language he understood, and probably spoke. IN that charming mediaeval romance, Fortunatus and his Sons, which, by the way, is a treasury of Popular Mythology, is an account of a visit paid by the favoured youth to that cave of mystery in Lough Derg, the Purgatory of S. Patrick. He keeps them capering till they are too exhausted to move a limb; then he casts the bride over his shoulder and makes off[131]. WebStream The Parting Glass by GerOD Funeral Music on desktop and mobile. Swan, his widow, then fled with his children and her husbands body to Megen, fearing her brother Julius Caesar. [51] Historie of that Most famous Saint and Soldier of Christ Jesus, S. George of Cappadocia, 1633. To this it was objected that the figure was too large and solemn, and was made too prominent, to be so taken; that to the cross was assigned the place of honour; and that, independently of the bust of the sea-god, it was connected by the artists with the presence of water. xx. All the inhabitants met him and conducted him to the cavern. After having partaken of this he went to sleep, and in vision beheld and conversed with his guardian angel, who promised to conduct him back to his fatherland, but to come for him again and fetch him away from it forever at the expiration of the tenth year after his return to Dronheim. Another cylinder in the same Cabinet represents three personages. Therefore I think that the cross may symbolize life restored by rain. In Austria and Bavaria she was called Perchta, or Bertha (the shining), and was supposed to have horns like Isis or Io, other lunar goddesses But in Swabia and Thuringia she was represented by Horsel or Ursul. i. p. 452. This Flath Innis, the Noble Island, is the Gaelic name for the western paradise. Let me take one which can be explained the Oannes of the Chaldaeans, the Philistine Dagon. On the morrow, the officers of justice arrived, and examined the premises. He remembered all the Apostles, and described their personal appearance, their clothes, and their peculiarities. Jacobus Sarugiensis, a Mesopotamian bishop, in the fifth or sixth century, is said to have been the first to commit it to writing. At ten oclock in the evening all three had entered the wine shop. Stockholm, 1845; in E. Akin to the story of the piper is that made familiar to us by Goethes poem, the Erlking. The circumstances of the death of Tammuz vary in the different Semitic creeds. An ox was lost, and the eldest, in search of it, entered a cave, where she found an extensive lake of rippling blue water, on which swam a stainless swan. In the Saga of Half and his knights is an account of a merman who was caught and kept a little while on land. According to the calculations of M. Des Vergers, the great development of Etruscan civilization took place about 290 years before the foundation of Rome, more than 1040 years before our era. A hymn by the late Dr. Faber, now very popular, is unquestionably founded on this ancient superstition, and is probably an unconscious revival of early dissenting reminiscences. Paludanus relates in his Thesaurus Novus, of course on incontrovertible authority, that Alexander the Great was full of desire to see the terrestrial Paradise, and that he undertook his wars in the East for the express purpose of reaching it, and obtaining admission into it. It is of no importance discussing here whether Metellus Celer is the same as the Praetor of Rome in the year of the consulship of Cicero, and afterwards consul conjointly with L. Africanus; or whether the German king was Ariovistus, conquered by Julius Caesar. There they find a wounded bear, which seeks a certain plant, and, rolling upon it, recovers health and vigour instantaneously. Help me continue giving free literature to all by either making a donation (one-off or monthly), or by purchasing a curated collection. In 1851, M. de Castelnau gave additional details relative to an expedition against these tailed men. Urban was a hard and stern man, and shocked at the immensity of the sin, he thrust the penitent indignantly fromhim, exclaiming, Guilt such as thine can never, never be remitted. Gunadhya then ascends a mountain, and lights a great pile of firewood. Alas! In this vessel was Helias. The Niam-niams, he says, were sleeping in the sun: the Haoussas approached, and, falling on them, massacred them to the last man. So great was the number of these little animals, that there could scarcely be imagined more inawhole province. Sigebert of Gemblours (d. 1112) is the first author to narrate them. But the shipping of the dead had no significance in Scandinavian mythology, whilst it was full of meaning in that of the Kelts. The enraged Jews cast Joseph into prison, and left him to die of hunger. The remains belong to three distinct ages. At the same time his conscience began to reproach him, and he longed to make his peace with God. He turned very pale and broke into a profuse perspiration, whilst for a quarter of an hour his pulse was violently troubled; indeed, the faintness was so considerable, that they were obliged to dash water in his face and give him water to drink in order to bring him round. He then describes experiments made over the bloody bill and others similar, which succeeded in the hands of Aymar and the lady, but failed when he attempted them himself. I just saw an episode of an Australian TV show where it was sung. Every thing there bore the stamp of former ages, as if the world had suddenly rolled back for several centuries; and no wonder, for the Island of the Seven Cities had been cut off from the rest of the world for several hundred years. Whether this legend was in the Welsh book of Walter the Archdeacon, from which the good Bishop of S. Asaph derived so much of his history, does not appear. Wright. Rufin. From time to time it uttered little cries like those ofamouse. Among the Swiss potteries, however, the cross is very rarely found. For the purpose their method is simple. The articlestantis vel cadentis Fidei,of the Apostles, was the resurrection of the body. Hist., ed. The result of these communications with the East was, that the travellers learned how false were the prevalent notions of a mighty Christian empire existing in Central Asia. His habits are barbarous. In Babylonia it had already passed to Yanbushadh; and it was made to pass further to Gherghis, much as in Greece the story of Apollo and Python was transferred to Perseus and the seamonster, and, as we shall see presently, was adopted into Christian mythology, and attributed to the subject of this paper. The sun, the moon, and two stars, are placed at the feet of the Angel, the Bull, the Lion, and the Eagle. Concluding hastily that the hound had proved unfaithful, had fallen on the child and devoured it,in a paroxysm of rage the prince drew his sword and slew the dog. Shall we meet beyond the river,Where the surges cease to roll,Where in all the bright For-everSorrow neer shall press the soul? And incontinent the kynge and the queene descended wyth many lordes, knightes, and gentilmen, and came with great diligence upon the water syde, for to see the above sayde swannes. Remain, and M. de Puget, to detect whether there was imposture in the man. Three days journey from this sea are mountains from which rolls down a stony, waterless river, which opens into the sandy sea. Come, heavnly wind, and blowA prosprous gale of grace,To waft from all belowTo heavn, my destined place:There in full sail my port Ill find,And leave the world and sin behind., Or I might quote a poem on The Last Voyage, from the Lyra Messianica, which one would have supposed to have been founded on the Gaelic legend told by Macpherson:. The converted and Christianized tale brings the martyr youths forth in the hour when a heresy is afflicting the Church, that they may destroy the heresy by their witness to the truth of the Resurrection. This type of data sharing may be considered a sale of information under California privacy laws. As he dashed up to his house, blinded with rage, and regardless of what was before him, the horse fell with him into the pit which the poor folk had dug, and he was killed by the fall. Subject of wailing, seeking, and finding. Er hed a pscheli uffem rogga.[30]That is to say, he was given thechoice of burning in the sun, or of freezing in the moon; he chose the latter; and now at full moon he is to be seen seated with his bundle of fagots on his back. 1844.). But the swan-maiden took her own heart and that of her husband, and threw them into the air. In other Greek fables it is the earth which is saved from destruction by the victory of the hero. He thereupon cut the names and titles of many of the deceased on stonehow he ascertained their names is not stated; but, before he had accomplished his task, the Huns discovered him engaged in his pious work, and dispatched him. Again they went in procession, and were met by a charcoal-burner, who promised to destroy the insects, if the people would expend five hundred gulden on a chapel. We see that up to the tenth century, for eithei 650 or 450 years after the martyrdom, there is no mention of S. Ursula by name, and only one reference to virgin martyrs at Cologne. A Flemish Theophilus was published by M. Philipp Blommaert, from an old MS. of the fourteenth century, in 1836. One in Swedish, without date. 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. . The Ecclesiastical History he wrote is full of perversions of the plainest facts, and that under our notice is but one out of many. Then all the water-spirits vowed revenge at the insult offered to one of their race; they stirred up war between the Ottawas and Andirondacks, which led to the extermination of the latter; one only was rescued, and he was grasped by the fish-wife, and by her borne down to the watery depths below the Falls of S. Anthony. lament, which was a style of music prevalent back then. You'll feel They met again several times, till Unk-Khan was utterly discomfited, and was slain himself, and his wives, sons, and daughters carried into captivity. Rome does not fight against the Daily Sacrifice, and endeavor to abolish it; that has been rather the labor of so-called Church Reformers, who with the suppression of the doctrine of Eucharistic Sacrifice and Sacramental Adoration have well nigh obliterated all notion of worship to be addressed to the God-Man. If you miss the mark, then your life goes., Hemingr answered, Sire, my life is at your disposal, but I will not adventure that shot. Then out spake BjornShoot, brother, rather than die yourself. Hemingr said, Have you the pluck to stand quite still without shrinking? I will do my best, said Bjorn. The day of his martyrdom was the 23rd of April. And when they were at the waters side, even fast by the banke, hoved a little barge with many faire ladies in it, and among them all was a queene, and all they had blacke hoods, and they wept and shriked when they saw King Arthur. Next instant the cry of the babe from behind the cradle showed him that the child was uninjured; and, on looking farther, Llewellyn discovered the body of a huge wolf, which had entered the house to seize and devour the child, but which had been kept off and killed by the brave dog Gellert. On the stormy coast of the Hebrides are often found nuts, which are made by the fishermen into snuff-boxes or worn as amulets. Wright. c. 31) tells a tale of a usurer in Cologne, who, moved with compunction for his sins, confessed to a priest, who bade him fill a chest with bread, as alms for the poor attached to the church of S. Gereon. yet know that thou, and those who succeed thee, shall see me hover over this fair castle of Lusignan, whenever a new lord is to come. And with a long wail of agony she swept from the window, leaving the impression of her foot on the stone she last touched. . There Cain was endeavouring to grasp the roots, and clamber up them into Paradise; but they laced themselves around the body and limbs of the fratricide, as the threads of a spiders web entangle a fly, and the fibres of the tree penetrated the body of Cain as though they were endued with life. The numbers in the legend of the soldier-saint have a solar look about them.