earned, suggested
by the vague affinities of name. But it is quite as likely, (if there be
anything in the conjecture,) that the Celt taught the Greek, as that the
Greek taught the Celt.

There are some very interesting questions, however, for scholars to
discuss--viz. 1st, When did the Celts first introduce idols? 2d, Can we
believe the classical authorities that assure us that the Druids
originally admitted no idol worship? If so, we find the chief idols of
the Druids cited by Lucan; and they therefore acquired them long before
Lucan's time. From whom would they acquire them? Not from the Romans;
for the Roman gods are not the least similar to the Celtic, when the last
are fairly examined. Nor from the Teutons, from whose deities those of
the Celt equally differ. Have we not given too much faith to the classic
writers, who assert the original simplicity of the Druid worship? And
will not their popular idols be found to be as ancient as the remotest
traces of the Celtic existence? Would not the Cimmerii have transported
them from the period of their first traditional immigration from the
East? and is not their Bel identical with the Babylonian deity?

NOTE (N)

Unguents used by Witches.

Lord Bacon, speaking of the ointments used by the witches, supposes that
they really did produce illusions by stopping the vapours and sending
them to the head. It seems that all witches who attended the sabbat used
these unguents, and there is something very remarkable in the concurrence
of their testimonies as to the scenes they declared themselves to have
witnessed, not in the body, which they left behind, but as present in the
soul; as if the same anointments and preparatives produced dreams nearly
similar in kind. To the believers in mesmerism I may add, that few are
aware of the extraordinary degree to which somnambulism appears to be
heightened by certain chemical aids; and the disbelievers in that agency,
who have yet tried the experiments of some of those now neglected drugs
to which the medical art of the Middle Ages attached peculiar virtues,
will not be inclined to dispute the powerful and, as it were, systematic
effect which certain drugs produce on the imagination of patients with
excitable and nervous temperaments.

NOTE (O)

Hilda's Adjurations.

I.

"By the Urdar fount dwelling,
Day by day from the rill,
The Nornas besprinkle
The Ash Ygg-drasill."

Th