Shakespeare, in _Much Ado about Nothing_, makes Hero falsely accused of infidelity, through the malice of Don John, who induces Margaret (the lady’s attendant) to give Borachio a rendezvous at the lady’s chamber window. While this was going on, Claudio, the betrothed lover of Hero, was brought to a spot where he might witness the scene, and, believing Margaret to be Hero, was so indignant, that next day at the altar he denounced Hero as unworthy of his love. Benedict challenged Claudio for slander, but the combat was prevented by the arrest and confession of Borachio. Don John, finding his villainy exposed, fled to Messina. Spencer has introduced a similar story in his _Faëry Queen_, v. 11 (the tale of “Irena,” _q.v._). =Gin´evra=, the young Italian bride who, playing hide-and-seek, hid herself in a large trunk. The lid accidentally fell down, and was held fast by a spring-lock. Many years afterwards the trunk was sold and the skeleton discovered.—Rogers, _Italy_ (1792). T. Haynes Bayley wrote a ballad called _The Mistletoe Bough_, on the same tradition. He calls the bridegroom “young Lovell.” A similar narrative is given by Collet, in his _Causes Célèbres_. Marwell Old Hall, once the residence of the Seymours, and subsequently of the Dacre family, has a similar tradition attached to it, and “the very chest is now the property of the Rev. J. Haygarth, rector of Upham.”—_Post-Office Directory_. Bramshall, Hampshire, has a similar tale and chest. The same tale is also told of the great house at Malsanger, near Basingstoke. =Gingerbread= (_Giles_), the hero of an English nursery tale. _Jack the Giant-killer_, _Giles Gingerbread_, and _Tom Thumb_ will flourish in wide-spreading and never-ceasing popularity.—Washington Irving. =Ginn or Jân= (singular _masculine_ Jinnee, _feminine_ Jinniyeh), a species of beings created long before Adam. They were formed of “smokeless fire” or fire of the simoom, and were governed by monarchs named suleyman, the last of whom was Jân-ibn-Jân or Gian-ben-Gian, who “built the pyramids of Egypt.” Prophets were sent to convert them, but on their persistent disobedience, an army of angels drove them from the earth. Among the Ginn was one named Aza´zel. When Adam was created, and God commanded the angels to worship him, Azazel refused, saying, “Why should the spirits of fire worship a creature made of earth?” Whereupon God changed him into a devil, and called him Iblis or Eblis (“despair”). Spelt also Djinn. =Gi´ona=, a leader of the anabaptists, once a servant of Comte d’Oberthal, but discharged from his service for theft. He joined the rebellion of the anabaptists, but, with the rest of the conspirators, betrayed the “prophet-king,” John of Leyden, when the emperor arrived with his army.—Meyerbeer, _Le Prophète_ (1849).