[15] ‘Spirit of the Beasts of France,’ ch. i.
[16] ‘Rigv.’ i. 105, 18, 42, 2; ‘Vendidad,’ xix. 108. Quoted by De Gubernatis (‘Zoolog. Mythology,’ ii. 142), to whose invaluable work I am largely indebted in this chapter.
[17] ‘Zoolog. Myth.,’ ii. 7. Trübner & Co.
[18] ‘Zoolog. Myth.,’ ii. 108 seq.
[19] Afanasief, v. 28.
[20] Ibid., v. 27.
[21] ii. 6 (De Gubernatis, ii. 117).
[22] Rather the devil of lust than of cruelty, according to Du Cange: “Occidunt ursum, occiditur diabolus, id est, temptator nostræ carnis.”
[23] De Plancy (Dict. Inf.), who also relates an amusing legend of the bear who came to a German choir, as seen by a sleepy chorister as he awoke; the naïve narrator of which adds, that this was the devil sent to hold the singers to their duty! The Lives of the Saints abound with legends of pious bears, such as that commemorated along with St. Sergius in Troitska Lavra, near Moscow; and that which St. Gallus was ungracious enough to banish from Switzerland after it had brought him firewood in proof of its conversion.