his reception in a village, iii. 108

Emma, widow of Ethelred and wife of Canute, ii. 282 sq.

Emmenthal, in Switzerland, superstition as to Midsummer Day in the, xi. 27;

use of orpine at Midsummer in the, xi. 62 n.

Empedocles, his claim to divinity, i. 390;

leaps into the crater of Etna, v. 181;

his doctrine of transmigration, viii. 300 sqq.;

his resemblance to Buddha, viii. 302;

his theory of the material universe like that of Herbert Spencer, viii. 303 sqq.;

as a forerunner of Darwin, viii. 306;