In his Train, are three _Diræ_, _Eumenides_, or Furies, _viz._ _Alecto_, _Megæra_, and _Tysiphone_, whose Heads are covered with long and dreadful Snakes, instead of Hair, with Whips, Chains, and flaming Torches, in their Hands, to punish the Guilty. These also attended the Throne of _Jove_, and were accounted to be Messengers of the Gods, whose Office it was to execute their Decrees in the Infliction of Calamities upon Mortals. These _Furies_ had their Temples and Worshippers, and were described in Figures of so frightful a Form, that they durst scarce mention their Names without Horror. _TYSIPHONE_, one of them, enraged at an innocent Youth, pluck’d off one of her Snakes, and threw it at him, which wound about his Body, and immediately strangled him. Some say, that we see these three Furies on a Medal of the Emperor _Philip_, struck at _Antioch_, on whose Reverse are represented three Women, arm’d with a Key, burning Torches, Poniards, and Serpents. The Daffodil was sacred to the Furies, and such as offered Sacrifice to them were crowned with it[96]. Footnote 96: From _Eustathius_, on the first Book of the _Iliad_. As soon as departed Souls had been examined by _Minos_, _Radamanthus_, and _Æacus_, and found guilty, and Sentence past, they were delivered to the Furies, who cast them down headlong into _Tartarus_, the Place of Torment,—and all those who had lived well, were conducted to the _Elysian_ Fields. _HOMER_ speaks of them as the Executioners of Justice upon false Swearers, among other Instances: _Infernal Furies, and Tartarean Gods, Who rule the Dead, and horrid Woes prepare For perjur’d Kings, and all who falsly swear._ The _Harpies_[97] were monstrous and cruel Birds describ’d with Women’s Faces, and _Dragons Tails_, to render them more formidable to Mankind: The Ancients looked upon them as Dæmons or Genii, which last _Homer_ calls _Podarge_. About _Kaskan_ in _Persia_, is a fine and fertile Country, but plagued with Multitudes of _Scorpions_, which haunt the Inhabitants, especially in that Town (one of the most populous and eminent Marts in that Empire) where the Inhabitants, for fear of that venemous Animal, dare not sleep upon the Floor (as in other Places, where they only throw a Quilt upon the Tapestry) but have light Couches, hanging down from the Roof, like Seamens Hammocks, or hanging Beds on ship-board. Footnote 97: _Aello_, _Ocypete_, and _Celæno_, Virg. Æneid. lib. 3.