Gypsy Sorcery and Fortune Telling (Illustrated) (Annotated) by Charles Godfrey Leland

Gypsy Sorcery and Fortune Telling (Illustrated) (Annotated) by Charles Godfrey Leland

Author:Charles Godfrey Leland [Leland, Charles Godfrey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-03-03T04:30:00+00:00


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Footnotes

127:1 Though not connected with this work, I cannot help observing that this extraordinary simile probably originated in a very common ornament used as a figurehead, or in decorations, on Mississippi steamboats, as well as ships. This is the seahorse (hippocampus), which may be often seen of large size, carved and gilt. Its fish tail might be easily confused with that of an alligator. PRÆTORIUS (1666) enumerates, among other monsters, the horse-crocodile.

135:1 SCHOTT, "Wallachische Mährchen," p. 297. Stuttgart, 1845.



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