[86]: The Rabbis maintain that Cain killed his brother because the latter disagreed with him when he (Cain) denied the immortality of the soul. So that the first murder was an auto-da-fe, and the first war a religious one.
[87]: According to de Luc, in the third volume of his ‘Little Journeys for Amateur Travellers.’
[88]: That is, to himself. He wishes his inheritance to be paid to himself, and not to his wife, because she might have married a rich husband in the interval; besides, he would have less trouble in knowing whether or not the Heimlicher did what he told him, and could, if necessary, carry out the threat which he is about to make.
[89]: Here follow, in the original, puns on the (German) medical names of the four stomachs of the Ruminantia, for which I am unequal to finding equivalents.—Trans.
[90]: Leibgeber means, at once, the second life (in which he does not believe), and Firmian’s continuation of his present life in Vaduz.
[91]: Plin. H. N., viii 30.
[92]: Which, like a greater Psyche, makes its nest in skulls.
[93]: King’s hearts are enshrined in golden cases.
[94]: The actor (among the Romans) who mimicked the deceased in all his gestures and movements at his funeral.
[95]: People who had been taken to be dead, and honoured with a funeral, had to go through these ceremonies.—Potter.