Psychology of the Unconscious / A Study of the Transformations and Symbolisms of the Libido. A Contribution to the History of the Evolution of Thought

by C. G. Jung

[573]. Diez: “Etym. Wörterbuch der romanischen Sprachen,” p. 90.

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[574]. Witches easily change themselves into horses, therefore the nail-marks of the horseshoe may be seen upon their hands. The devil rides on witch-horses, priests’ cooks are changed after death into horses, etc. Negelein, Zeitschrift des Vereines für Volkskunde, XI, p. 406.

[575]. Just so does the mythical ancient king Tahmuraht ride upon Ahriman, the devil.

[576]. The she-asses and their foals might belong to the Christian sun myth, because the Zodiacal sign Cancer (Summer solstice) was designated in antiquity as an ass and its young. (Compare Robertson: “Evangelical Myths,” p. 19.)

[577]. Also a centaur.

[578]. Compare the exhaustive presentation of this theme in Jähn’s “Ross und Reiter.”

[579]. Sleipnir is eight-footed.

[580]. Negelein: Ibid., p. 412.

[581]. Negelein: Ibid., p. 419.