FOOTNOTES:
[138] Tempestiarii, or Storm-makers, was a name given, in the Middle Ages, to the master-wizards who could conjure up foul weather. Weather-prayers were used in the churches against them, and other wizard-masters called in to counteract the former.
[139] The Polish dancer always carries a rod under the fur-dress, wherewith his partner is excused by a blow or two, when she makes a misstep.—Upper Siles. Monthly Mag., July, 1788.
[140] Dread of spirits.
[141] The German for this is sauer-stoff (sour-stuff).—Tr.
[142] A noted review in Richter's day, published at Erlangen near Nuremberg.—Tr.
[143] Thus did the turnkeys name their prisoners.
[144] Alexand. ab Al., v. 4.
[145] To distinguish himself from the eagle of the Emperor, who holds something in both claws.
[146] Bouverot was a Catholic.
[147] He meant one with the poor Lector.
[148] Literally, "twilight-bird."—Tr.
[149] To get the basket means a refusal.—Tr.
[150] I do not mean (as perhaps may appear from the selling) Pitt the Minister, but Pitt the Diamond, which the father of the present Pitt traded away to the Duke Regent of France, and for whose splinters he got twelve thousand ducats into the bargain.
[151] I sell only my landscapes, and throw in the figures.
[152] Stand, in German, has the double meaning of an estate and a stand.—Tr.
[153] Plaut. Bacch., Act 4, Scen. 7, 4, 16, 17.
[154] Seventh Part of the new Collection of Travels.
[155] I speak more particularly of the daughters, because they are the most frequent and greatest victims; the sons are bloodless mass-offerings.
[156] Pliny, Nat. Hist., VIII. 16.
[157] And this is quite probable. Dr. Edward Hill reckoned that in England eight thousand die annually of unhappy love,—of broken hearts, as the Englishwomen touchingly express it. Beddoes shows that vegetable food—and of this such victims are particularly fond—fosters consumption, and that females incline to this. Besides, the times of longing, which of itself, even without disappointment, as homesickness shows, is a poisonous revolving leaden ball, occur in youth, when the seed of pectoral maladies most easily springs up. O many married ones fall, under misconstructions, victims to the death-angel, into whose hand they had, previously to marriage, put the sword they themselves had sharpened!
[158] Forster's Views, Vol. I.
[159] A line (French) is one twelfth of an inch.—Tr.
[160] Because he had just said he did not know her.—Tr.
[161] Weigel. in Jena, invented the inverted bridge (pons heteroclitus), a stairway on which a person seems to descend, by going up.—Bush's Handbook of Inventions, Vol. VII.
[162] It had the name from its height and its being so often struck with lightning.
