broken up into small fairy tales, and as thesedrops in turn reunite. "On silent lake or streamlet lone" as Villon hath it, even so minor myths are again formed from the fallen waters. In this story we clearly have the dog made by Vulcan and the wolf -Jupiter settled the question by petrifying them - as you may read in Julius Pollux,/i* his fifth book, or any other on mythology. "Which hunting hound, as well is known, Was changed by Jupiter to stone." It is remarkable that in this story the moon is compared to an onion. "The onion," says Friedrich, "was, on account of its many skins, among theEgyptians the emblem and hieroglyph of the many formed moon, whose differentphases are so clearly seen I the root when it is cut through, also because its growth or decrease corresponds with that of the planet. Therefore it was dedicated to Isis, the Moon Goddess." And for this reason the onion was so holy as to be regarded as having in itself something of deity; for which reason Juvenal remarks that the Egyptians were happy people to have gods growing in their gardens. CHAPTER XV LAVERNA The following very curious tale, with the incantation, was not in thetext of the Vangelo, but it very evidently belongs to the cycle or series of legends connected with it. Diana is declaredto be the protectress of all outcasts, those to whom the night is their day, consequently of thieves; and Laverna, as we may learn from Horace and Plautus, was pre-eminently the patroness of pilfering and all rascality. In this story she also appears as a witch and humorist. It was given to me as a tradition of Virgil, who often appears as one familiar with the marvelous and hidden lore of the olden time. It happened on a time that Virgil, who knew all things hidden or magical, he who was a magician and poet, having heard a speech (or oration)by a famous talker who had not much in him, was asked what he thought of it. And he ...
