Category: Mythology, Legends & Folklore
The Druids and their Creed.--Esus.--The Holy Oak.--The Pforzheim Lime Tree.--A Rival Plant.--The Mistletoe and the Anguinufh.--The Oracle at Do-dona.--Immaculate Horses.--The Druidesses.--A late Elector.--Philanthropic Institution of Human Sacrifices.--Second Druidical. Epoch....
The Druids and their Creed.--Esus.--The Holy Oak.--The Pforzheim Lime Tree.--A Rival Plant.--The Mistletoe and the Anguinufh.--The Oracle at Do-dona.--Immaculate Horses.--The Dr...
2. Part 2To whom had he confided the control over the stars in heaven? Mr. Pelloutier himself never could find out. As to the government of the earth, he had entrusted it to an infinite...
3. Part 3These strange balls were used medicinally by the Druids like the mistletoe; they employed them even in their religious ceremonies, and soon they became so rare, that only the we...
4. Part 4I reach the low village and find it occupied by a colony of Salic Franks, who live scattered all along the Rhine. With their eyes fixed upon the left bank, they are just now far...
5. Part 5By special grace I understood the Germano-Celtic words of the bard without difficulty. But the poem was flowing on interminably; I began to mistrust my memory. Centuries succeed...
6. Part 6The two parties soon met face to face. {118}It is our solemn duty to explain fully the whole curious system of Scandinavian gods. We shall see that here, as in all that we shall...
7. Part 7Good goddess Saga, your lips, I know, never touched the vessel containing Eloquence, nor that which held Logic, far from it! And still I count upon you to support me in carrying...
8. Part 8The one great enjoyment of all who dwell in Walhalla was combat and strife. That is a matter of taste, but did they not carry combat and strife a little too far? They fought the...
9. Part 9“At table, when proceeding to their usual libations, their slightly tremulous hands will be unable to hold their cups steadily; some of the wine or the hydromel will escape and...
10. Part 10For the sake of enjoying some relief after such a long enumeration of deities, now entirely out of fashion, I feel strongly tempted to insert here _a saga_, a Finnish legend, wh...
11. Part 11Such acts of violence and such worldly enjoyments were incomprehensible to the faithful; gradually the Church of the Apostles began to fear the Church of the Soldiers. The Saxon...
12. Part 12During the great religious reaction which took place after the days of Charlemagne, all the mythological gods of rivers and streams had gradually returned, more or less successf...
13. Part 13It is much easier to recognize _Frau Holle_, as her presence is always announced by unmistakable indications. She has assumed the task of overlooking the poor country girls at t...
14. Part 14The report is, however, that a single couple, man and wife, are kept alive by magic art in an isolated part of the Hartz Mountains, to serve as a specimen of the lost race. {338...
15. Part 15{365}At first all went well; but at the end of three weeks Putskuchen looked sad and melancholy; Putskuchen only took half a dozen meals a day; Putskuchen was slowly fading away...
16. Part 16Then followed a lawsuit, the result of which was to prove, that instead of sleeping an hour or so on that bench, as she believed, she had been asleep there a hundred years. Thus...
17. Part 17You do not think my material is all used up? By no means! In the first place, I might have told you all about mythological animals; of Thor’s _buck-goat_, which enjoyed the same...