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On Symbols And Symbolism,
alp ha we shall discover , perhaps , the best reason in its formation by and into angles , which it has in common ivith the famous triquetra as exhibited in the Legs of Man , of Sicil y ancl Malta , as well as in the cross , but more especially in the crux ansata , the handled cross , thus U 4-, , which is also found on a number
of British and Gaulish coins , * on Etrurian vases , amongst the sculptured hieroglyphics of Egypt , but more especially as the predominant emblem of the great northern god Thor , from ivhose constant use of it as his hammer a literary friend once wittily remarked he ought tobe considered as the first geologist , ancl ivhose action must have been something akin to the boomerang of the
Australians , as it always returned to his hand when thrown by him to a distance . On the subject of the potency of all angles in witchcraft and sorcery , we can scarce do better than adduce some of Dr . Wm . Bell ' s remarks in answer to an inquiry as to the arms of the Legs of Man on a Manx halfpenny , with the motto : " Stabit quocumque jaceris , " in "Notes ancl Queries "
( vol . vii . p . 239 ) , with further reference to his little work of Puck , just published by himself . After referring to the great potency of all cutting edged ancl pointed tools , ancl the necessary progress of ratiocination in transferring their physical action to metaphysical power , he shows how , under the Greek name Chelethe human angle or fork was seized for the purposes of
, superstition , adducing from Saxo Grammaticus a dialogue in which Bearcus is instructed by Ruta how he can obtain sig ht of the otherivise invisible Odin , passing in the ah- as " der wilde Jciger . "
Bear co . At nunc ille ubi sit qui nilgo dicitur Othin Armipotens uno semper contentus ocello ; Die mihi , Ruta , precor usquam si conspicis ilium ? Rata . Adde oculum proprius , et nostras prospice chelas . Ante saeraturus victrici lumina signo , Si vis presentem tuto cognoscere Martem . Bearco . Sic potero horrendum Frigte spectare maritum , & e .
" So boys in the north put their heads between then- legs to see the devil looking over Lincoln ; and I am indebted to a mention of my Shakspeare's Puck , and his folk-lore , in the Maidstone Journal , for the proof that this belief still exists in Ireland , from an anecdote told hy Curran , who , in the absence of a wahr-wolf on which to try its ^ efficacy , would prove it on a large mastiff , by walking backwards to it in this posture , while the animal made such a grip at the poor barrister ' s hinder region that Curran was unable to sit with any gratification to himself for some weeks after . "
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On Symbols And Symbolism,
alp ha we shall discover , perhaps , the best reason in its formation by and into angles , which it has in common ivith the famous triquetra as exhibited in the Legs of Man , of Sicil y ancl Malta , as well as in the cross , but more especially in the crux ansata , the handled cross , thus U 4-, , which is also found on a number
of British and Gaulish coins , * on Etrurian vases , amongst the sculptured hieroglyphics of Egypt , but more especially as the predominant emblem of the great northern god Thor , from ivhose constant use of it as his hammer a literary friend once wittily remarked he ought tobe considered as the first geologist , ancl ivhose action must have been something akin to the boomerang of the
Australians , as it always returned to his hand when thrown by him to a distance . On the subject of the potency of all angles in witchcraft and sorcery , we can scarce do better than adduce some of Dr . Wm . Bell ' s remarks in answer to an inquiry as to the arms of the Legs of Man on a Manx halfpenny , with the motto : " Stabit quocumque jaceris , " in "Notes ancl Queries "
( vol . vii . p . 239 ) , with further reference to his little work of Puck , just published by himself . After referring to the great potency of all cutting edged ancl pointed tools , ancl the necessary progress of ratiocination in transferring their physical action to metaphysical power , he shows how , under the Greek name Chelethe human angle or fork was seized for the purposes of
, superstition , adducing from Saxo Grammaticus a dialogue in which Bearcus is instructed by Ruta how he can obtain sig ht of the otherivise invisible Odin , passing in the ah- as " der wilde Jciger . "
Bear co . At nunc ille ubi sit qui nilgo dicitur Othin Armipotens uno semper contentus ocello ; Die mihi , Ruta , precor usquam si conspicis ilium ? Rata . Adde oculum proprius , et nostras prospice chelas . Ante saeraturus victrici lumina signo , Si vis presentem tuto cognoscere Martem . Bearco . Sic potero horrendum Frigte spectare maritum , & e .
" So boys in the north put their heads between then- legs to see the devil looking over Lincoln ; and I am indebted to a mention of my Shakspeare's Puck , and his folk-lore , in the Maidstone Journal , for the proof that this belief still exists in Ireland , from an anecdote told hy Curran , who , in the absence of a wahr-wolf on which to try its ^ efficacy , would prove it on a large mastiff , by walking backwards to it in this posture , while the animal made such a grip at the poor barrister ' s hinder region that Curran was unable to sit with any gratification to himself for some weeks after . "