[29] ‘Records of the Past,’ iii. 129.

[30] The god of the Euphrates.

[31] The Assyrian has ‘of the high places.’

[32] ‘Records of the Past,’ iii. 129, 130.

[33] ‘Henry IV.,’ Part 1st, Act 2. ‘Heart of Mid-Lothian,’ xxv. An interesting paper on this subject by Mr. Alexander Wilder appeared in The Evolution, New York, December 16, 1877.

[34] De Plancy.

[35] An individual by this means saw his wife among the witches, so detecting her unhallowed nature, which gave rise to a saying there that husbands must not be star-gazing on St. Gerard’s Eve.

[36] London ‘Times,’ July 8, 1875.

Chapter V.