lay on the cold ground.

St. Nicholas was so uncommonly good a Catholic, that, even when an
infant at the breast, he would not suck his mother's breast but once
on the Wednesdays and Fridays. He, too, controlled the winds and
waves, and sent the evil spirit away howling through the tempest.

St. Ambrose, of ever blessed memory, controlled sorcerers and
necromancers, and made even the evil spirits obedient to him. On the
day of the saint's death the devils flew away, crying that they were
tormented by St. Ambrose.

St. Lucy raised her mother from the dead, and conquered demons.

St. Anastasia had power over Satan, and was for two months sustained
by bread from heaven. And what shall we say of St. Thomas and many of
the other saints who triumphed so gloriously in their day? St. Thomas,
Archbishop of Canterbury, we are told, endured martyrdom twice--once
in life, and again after death. To subdue the flesh, he scourged
himself until the blood ran down his body. He kept long night vigils,
and wore a hair shirt. In a vision he was told that he would
illustrate the Church with his blood--a prediction that was fulfilled.
It being proved that Henry II. was implicated in the foul deed, he had
to do penance in public and private before being absolved. Many years
afterwards, Henry VIII. commanded the dead saint to be summoned before
him, and having condemned him as a traitor, directed his name to be
erased from the catalogue of saints; forbade, under pain of death, his
day to be celebrated, or his name to be mentioned as a saint; and
ordered that his name should be blotted out of every book and calendar
in which it appeared. The revengeful king also commanded that the
saint's relics should be burned, and the ashes thereof scattered to
the winds.

With the following old tale in verse we close our collected
information on Demonology--a tale founded upon one of the most
extraordinary events recorded in the annals of the human mind. Not a
century and a half ago all the circumstances which form the romance,
with the addition of many others nearly as ridiculous, were not only
firmly believed by the peasants of a few Sclavonian villages, among
whom they were supposed to have happened, but were received as truths,
and seriously commented upon by learned divines and physicians of the
surrounding provinces. A superstition somewhat similar appears to have
prevailed in Bohemia and Silesia previous to the days of Dr. Henry
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