merica. "In no Indian language could the early
missionaries find a word to express the idea of God. Manitou and Oki
meant anything endowed with supernatural powers, from a snake-skin or
a greasy Indian conjurer up to Manabozho and Jouskeha. The priests were
forced to use a circumlocution,--`the great chief of men,' or 'he who
lives in the sky.'" Parkman, Jesuits in North America, p. lxxix. "The
Algonquins used no oaths, for their language supplied none; doubtless
because their mythology had no beings sufficiently distinct to swear
by." Ibid, p. 31.]

[Footnote 103: Muller, Rig-Veda-Sanhita, I. 230.]

[Footnote 104: Compare the remarks of Breal, Hercule et Cacus, p. 13.]

[Footnote 105: It should be borne in mind, however, that one of
the women who tempt Odysseus is not a dawn-maiden, but a goddess of
darkness; Kalypso answers to Venus-Ursula in the myth of Tannhauser.
Kirke, on the other hand, seems to be a dawn-maiden, like Medeia,
whom she resembles. In her the wisdom of the dawn-goddess Athene,
the loftiest of Greek divinities, becomes degraded into the art of an
enchantress. She reappears, in the Arabian Nights, as the wicked Queen
Labe, whose sorcery none of her lovers can baffle, save Beder, king of
Persia.]

[Footnote 106: The Persian Cyrus is an historical personage; but the
story of his perils in infancy belongs to solar mythology as much as
the stories of the magic sleep of Charlemagne and Barbarossa. His
grandfather, Astyages, is purely a mythical creation, his name being
identical with that of the night-demon, Azidahaka, who appears in the
Shah-Nameh as the biting serpent Zohak. See Cox, Mythology of the Aryan
Nations, II. 358.]

[Footnote 107: In mediaeval legend this resistless Moira is transformed
into the curse which prevents the Wandering Jew from resting until the
day of judgment.]

[Footnote 108: Cox, Manual of Mythology, p. 134.]

[Footnote 109: In his interesting appendix to Henderson's Folk Lore of
the Northern Counties of England, Mr. Baring-Gould has made an ingenious
and praiseworthy attempt to reduce the entire existing mass of household
legends to about fifty story-roots; and his list, though both redundant
and defective, is nevertheless, as an empirical classification, very
instructive.]

[Footnote 110: There is nothing in common between the names Hercules and
Herakles. The latter is a compound, formed like Themistokles; the
former is a simple derivative from the root of hercere, "t