[1081] In Klunzinger’s Upper Egypt, London, 1878.
[1082] See Keller, op. cit., p. 369.
[1083] Cf. with these inciters to Sabbath-breaking, (A) The fish, “called the Jewish Sheikh, which with a long white beard and a body as large as a calf, but in shape like a frog and hairy as a cow, comes out of the sea every Saturday and remains on land until sundown on Sunday” (Robinson, op. cit., p. 35), and (B) the story of how on a Friday during St. Corbinian’s pilgrimage to Rome, when although meat and all else abounded—the Saint had always been a bit of a bon viveur!—there was an absolute dearth of fish, an eagle suddenly dropped from the clouds and let fall at the feet of the chef a fine fish. Baring-Gould, Lives of the Saints, vol. X. 123 (London, 1897).
[1084] “O True Believers, kill no game while ye are on pilgrimage. It is lawful for you to fish in the sea and eat what ye shall catch as a provision for you and for those that travel.” The Koran (Sale, chap. V. or “on Contracts”). “This passage,” says Jallaleddin, “is to be understood only of fish which live altogether in the sea, and not of those which live partly in the sea and partly on land, such as crabs.” The Turks, who are Hanifites, never eat of the latter class; but some sects have no scruples.
[1085] Robinson, op. cit., p. 41. See the Koran (Sale, vol. II. 89), “God hath only forbidden you that which dieth of itself, and blood, and swine’s flesh, and that which has been slain in the name of any besides God.”
[1086] See antea, p. 388, n. 1.
[1087] The Compleat Angler, ch. I. “Others say that he left it (the Art of Angling) engraven on those pillars which he erected to preserve the knowledge of Mathematicks, Musick, and the rest of those precious Arts, which by God’s appointment or allowance, and his noble industry were thereby preserved from perishing in Noah’s Floud.” According to Manetho, Syncell Chron., 40, these tables engraved with sacred characters were translated into the Greek tongue in hieroglyphic characters, and committed to writing and deposited in the temples of Egypt. See the Epistle of Manetho, the Sebennyte, to Ptolemæus Philadelphus, and I. P. Cory, Ancient Fragments of Phœnician, Egyptian and other writings (London, 1832), pp. 168-9, and Eusebius, Chron. 6. Cf. Georgius Syncellus, Chronographia (Bonnæ, 1829), i. pp. 72-3.
[1088] An excellent monograph by Hans Schmidt (Jona Eine Untersuchung zur vergleichenden Religionsgeshichte, Göttingen, 1907) gives 39 cuts.
[1089] Op. cit., p. 53.
[1090] Four Poems from Zion’s Flowers, etc., by Mr. Zacharie Boyd, printed from his manuscripts in the Library of the University of Glasgow, edited by G. Neil, Glasgow, 1855. Perhaps the Rector’s Muse was spurred to these heights of poesie by the fact that the arms of the City of Glasgow bear a salmon with a ring in its mouth, illustrative of the miracle wrought by St. Kentigern, the founder of the See and first bishop. At the Reformation the revenue of the church included one hundred and sixty-eight salmon. See T. Moule, Heraldry of Fish (London, 1842), pp. 124-5. In the recovery of the keys of cathedrals and episcopal rings, fish play a part, as the adventures of St. Egwin (vol. i. 161), of St. Benno (vol. vi. 224), and of St. Maurilius (vol. x. 188), described by Baring-Gould (op. cit.) all testify.