=Van= (_The Spirit of the_), the fairy spirit of the Van Pools, in Carmarthen. She married a young Welsh farmer, but told him that if he struck her thrice, she would quit him forever. They went to a christening, and she burst into tears, whereupon her husband struck her as a marjoy; but she said, “I weep to see a child brought into this vale of tears.” They next went to the child’s funeral, and she laughed, whereupon her husband struck her again; but she said, “I truly laugh to think what a joy it is to change this vale of tears for that better land, where there is no more sorrow, but pleasures for evermore.” Their next visit was to a wedding, where the bride was young, and the man old, and she said aloud, “It is the devil’s compact. The bride has sold herself for gold.” The farmer again struck her, and bade her hold her peace; but she vanished away, and never again returned.--_Welsh Mythology._ =Vanbeest Brown= (_Captain_) _alias_ Dawson, _alias_ Dudley, _alias_ Harry Bertram, son of Mr. Godfrey Bertram, laird of Ellangowan. _Vanbeest Brown_, lieutenant of Dirk Hatteraick.--Sir W. Scott, _Guy Mannering_ (time, George II.). =Vanberg= (_Major_), in _Charles XII._, by J. R. Planché (1826). =Vanda=, wife of Baldric. She is the spirit with the red hand, who appears in the haunted chamber to the Lady Eveline Berenger, “the betrothed.”--Sir W. Scott, _The Betrothed_ (time, Henry II.). =Van´dunke= (2 _syl._), burgomaster of Bruges, a drunken merchant, friendly to Gerrard, king of the beggars, and falsely considered to be the father of Bertha. His wife’s name is Margaret. (Bertha is in reality the daughter of the duke of Brabant.)--Beaumont and Fletcher, _The Beggars’ Bush_ (1622). =Vandyck= (_The English_), William Dobson, painter (1610-1647). =Vandyck in Little=, Samuel Cooper. In his epitaph in old St. Pancras Church he is called “the Apellês of his age” (1609-1672). =Vandyck of France=, Hyacinth Rigaud y Ros (1659-1743). =Vandyck of Sculpture=, Antoine Coysevox (1640-1720). =Vane= (_Ellery_), a coquettish girl, who has method in her coquetry, beguiles Ellery Vane to the loss of his heart by tying on her hat in his presence. “Ah! Ellery Vane, you little thought, An hour ago, when you besought This country lass to walk with you, After the sun had dried the dew, What perilous danger you’d be in As she tied her bonnet under her chin!” Nora Perry, _After the Ball and Other Poems_ (1875). _Vane_ (_Henry_), a man who begins life as a flippant young fellow with a French education; settles down into an astute money-maker; falls in love seriously when he meant to flirt, and, finding that the girl with whom he is enamored has played a sharper game than he, and is engaged to another man, blows out his own brains.--Frederic Jesup Stimson, _The Crime of Henry Vane_.