note 33: "Saga me forwhan byth seo sunne read on aefen? Ic the
secge, forthon heo locath on helle.--Tell me, why is the sun red at
even? I tell thee, because she looketh on hell." Thorpe, Analecta
Anglo-Saxonica, p. 115, apud Tylor, Primitive Culture, Vol. II. p. 63.
Barbaric thought had partly anticipated my childish theory.]

[Footnote 34: "Still in North Germany does the peasant say of thunder,
that the angels are playing skittles aloft, and of the snow, that they
are shaking up the feather beds in heaven."--Baring-Gould, Book of
Werewolves, p. 172.]

[Footnote 35: "The Polynesians imagine that the sky descends at the
horizon and encloses the earth. Hence they call foreigners papalangi, or
'heaven-bursters,' as having broken in from another world outside."--Max
Muller, Chips, II. 268.]

[Footnote 36: "--And said the gods, let there be a hammered plate in the
midst of the waters, and let it be dividing between waters and waters."
Genesis i. 6.]

[Footnote 37: Genesis vii. 11.]

[Footnote 38: See Kelly, Indo-European Folk-Lore, p 120; who states also
that in Bengal the Garrows burn their dead in a small boat, placed on
top of the funeral-pile. In their character of cows, also, the clouds
were regarded as psychopomps; and hence it is still a popular
superstition that a cow breaking into the yard foretokens a death
in the family.]

[Footnote 39: The sun-god Freyr had a cloud-ship called Skithblathnir,
which is thus described in Dasent's Prose Edda: "She is so great, that
all the AEsir, with their weapons and war-gear, may find room on board
her"; but "when there is no need of faring on the sea in her, she is
made.... with so much craft that Freyr may fold her together like a
cloth, and keep her in his bag." This same virtue was possessed by the
fairy pavilion which the Peri Banou gave to Ahmed; the cloud which is no
bigger than a man's hand may soon overspread the whole heaven, and shade
the Sultan's army from the solar rays.]

[Footnote 40: Euhemerism has done its best with this bird, representing
it as an immense vulture or condor or as a reminiscence of the extinct
dodo. But a Chinese myth, cited by Klaproth, well preserves its true
character when it describes it as "a bird which in flying obscures
the sun, and of whose quills are made water-tuns." See Nouveau Journal
Asiatique, Tom. XII. p. 235. The big bird in the Norse tale of the "Blue
Belt" belongs to the same species.]

[Footnote 41: Baring-Gould, Curi