30):
Fengo is therefore the personification of grinding, the mill (Grotti) is
his wife Gerutha, the mother of Amleth or Hamlet. Grotti means both woman
and mill. Greeth is only a paraphrase of woman. He continues, "Duke Otto,
Ludwig of Bavaria's youngest son, wasted his substance with a beautiful
miller's daughter named Margaret, and lived in Castle Wolfstein.... This
mill is still called the Gretel mill and Prince Otto the Finner" (Grimm,
D. S., No. 496). Finner means, like Fengo, the miller [Fenja--old Norman? =
the milleress], for the marriage is a milling [Vermaehlung ist eine
Vermehlung], the child is the ground grain, the meal.

The same writer (Sitt. u. Gebr., p. 162): "In concept the seed corn has
the same value as the spermatozoon. The man is the miller, the woman the
mill."

In Dulaure-Krauss-Rieskel (Zeugung i. Glaub usw. d. Voelk., p. 100 ff.) I
find the following charm from the writings of Burkhard, Bishop of Worms:
"Have you not done what some women are accustomed to do? They strip
themselves of clothes, they anoint their naked bodies with honey, spread a
cloth on the ground, on which they scatter grain, roll about in it again
and again, then collect carefully all the grains, which have stuck on
their bodies, and grind them on the mill stone which they turn in a
contrary direction. When the corn is ground into meal, they bake a loaf of
it, and give it to their husbands to eat, so that they become sick and
die. When you have done this you will atone for it forty days on bread and
water."

Killing is the opposite of procreating, therefore the mill is here turned
in reverse direction.

Etymologically it is here to be noted that the verb mahlen (grind),
iterative form of mohen (mow), originally had a meaning of moving oneself
forwards and backwards. Mulieren or mahlen (grind), _molere_, {~GREEK SMALL LETTER MU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER UPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER LAMDA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER LAMDA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~} for
coire (cf. Anthropophyteia, VIII, p. 14).

There are numerous stories where the mill appears as the place of love
adventures. The "old woman's mill" also is familiar; old women go in and
come out young. They are, as it were, ground over in the magic mill. The
idea of recreation in the womb lies at the bottom of it, just as in the
vulgar expression, "Lassen sie sich umvoegeln."

In a legend of the Transylvanian Gypsies, "there cam