97.]

[Footnote 17: Hence perhaps the adage, "Always remember to pay the
piper."]

[Footnote 18: And it reappears as the mysterious lyre of the Gaelic
musician, who

"Could harp a fish out o' the water,
Or bluid out of a stane,
Or milk out of a maiden's breast,
That bairns had never nane."]

[Footnote 19: Baring-Gould, Curious Myths, Vol. II. p. 159.]

[Footnote 20: Perhaps we may trace back to this source the frantic
terror which Irish servant-girls often manifest at sight of a mouse.]

[Footnote 21: In Persia a dog is brought to the bedside of the person
who is dying, in order that the soul may be sure of a prompt escort. The
same custom exists in India. Breal, Hercule et Cacus, p. 123.]

[Footnote 22: The Devil, who is proverbially "active in a gale of wind,"
is none other than Hermes.]

[Footnote 23: "Il faut que la coeur devienne ancien parmi les aneiennes
choses, et la plenitude de l'histoire ne se devoile qu'a celui qui
descend, ainsi dispose, dans le passe. Mais il faut que l'esprit demeure
moderne, et n'oublie jamais qu'il n'y a pour lui d'autre foi que la foi
scientifique."--LITTRS.]

[Footnote 24: For an admirable example of scientific self-analysis
tracing one of these illusions to its psychological sources, see
the account of Dr. Lazarus, in Taine, De l'Intelligence, Vol. I. pp.
121-125.]

[Footnote 25: See the story of Aymar in Baring-Gould, Curious Myths,
Vol. I. pp. 57-77. The learned author attributes the discomfiture to
the uncongenial Parisian environment; which is a style of reasoning much
like that of my village sorcerer, I fear.]

[Footnote 26: Kelly, Indo-European Folk-Lore, p. 177.]

[Footnote 27: The story of the luck-flower is well told in verse by Mr.
Baring Gould, in his Silver Store, p. 115, seq.]

[Footnote 28: 1 Kings vi. 7.]

[Footnote 29: Compare the Mussulman account of the building of the
temple, in Baring-Gould, Legends of the Patriarchs and Prophets,
pp. 337, 338. And see the story of Diocletian's ostrich, Swan, Gesta
Romanorum, ed. Wright, Vol I. p. lxiv. See also the pretty story of the
knight unjustly imprisoned, id. p. cii.]

[Footnote 30: "We have the receipt of fern-seed. We walk invisible."
--Shakespeare, Henry IV. See Ralston, Songs of the Russian People, p. 98]

[Footnote 31: Henderson, Folk-Lore of the Northern Counties of England,
p. 202]

[Footnote 32: Kuhn, Die Herabkunft des Feuers und des Gottertranks.
Berlin, 1859.]

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