[16] Emerson.
[17] From “kige,” to spy, still extant in the Scottish word “to keek.”
[18] To life also sometimes. Thus, King Ormud was overwhelmed, Snorro tells us, by a rush of stones and mud caused by rain after snow.
[19] The famous Oldenburg horn was, according to Danish tradition, given by a mountain sprite to Count Otto of Oldenburg.
[20] The robber chief, Kombaldos, in Chinese Tartary, is related by Atkinson to have entertained a similar idea.
[21] In the Isle of Man, so long occupied by Norwegians, we find a similar legend. At the good woman’s second accouchement, Waldron relates, a noise was heard in the cow-house, which drew thither the whole assistants. They returned, on finding that all was right among the cattle, and lo! the second child had been carried from the bed, and dropped in a lane.
[22] Faye, Norske Folkesagn.
[23] I have not succeeded in obtaining any satisfactory information about this plant.
NEW AND CHEAPER EDITION, REVISED.