ing by sounding a horn with tremendous power. At the sound, which penetrates to an incredible distance, even to unknown lands, all came rushing as if enchanted to save him. In this conjuration, Diana,in the depths of heaven, is represented as rushing at the sound of the horn,and leaping through doors or windows to save the vintage of the one who blows. There is a certain singular affinity in these stories. In the story of the Via del Corno, the hero is saved by the Red Goblin or Robin Goodfellow, who gives him a horn, and it is the same sprite who appears in the conjuration of the Round Stone, which is sacred to Diana. This is because the spirit is nocturnal, and attendant on Diana-Titania. Kissing the hand to the new moon is a ceremony of unknown antiquity, and Job, even in his time, regarded it as heathenish and forbidden - whichalways means antiquated and out of fashion - as when he declared (xxxi, 26, 27), "If I beheld the moon walking in brightness...and myheart hath been secretly enticed or my mouth hath kissed my hand...this also were an iniquity to be punished by the Judge, for I should have denied the God that is above." From which it may or ought to be inferred that Job did not understand that God made the moon and appeared in all Hisworks, or else he really believed the moon was an independent deity. In any case, it is curious to see the old forbidden rite still living,and as heretical as ever. The tradition, as given to me, very evidently omits a part of the ceremony, which may be supplied from classic authority. When the peasantperforms the rite, he must not act as once a certain African, who was a servant of a friend of mine, did. The man's duty was to pour out everymorning a libation of rum to a fetish - and he poured it down his own throat. The peasant should also sprinkle the vines, just as the Devonshire farmers who observed all Christmas ceremonies, sprinkled, also from a horn, their apple-trees.C...
