[15] Though not connected with this work, I cannot help observing that this extraordinary simile probably originated in a very common ornament used as a figure-head, or in decorations, on Mississippi steamboats, as well as ships. This is the sea-horse (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. [16] Schott, "Wallachische Mährchen," p. 297. Stuttgart, 1845. [17] In Northern Sagas it appeared that Berserkers, or desperate warriors, frequently bound themselves together in companies of twelve. Vide the Hervor Saga, Olaf Tryggvason's and the Gautrek Saga. So there were the twelve Norse gods and the twelve apostles. [18] Vide "Drawing and Designing." London: Whittaker & Co., 1888. [19] This was written long before I heard that the same idea had occurred to others. [20] Another Italian was fined or imprisoned for the same thing in London in July, 1890--i.e., for telling penny fortunes by the same machine. [21] This chapter is reproduced, but with much addition, from one in my work entitled "The Gypsies," published in Boston, 1881, by Houghton and Mifflin. London: Trübner & Co. The addition will be the most interesting portion to the folk-lorist. [22] This song which, with its air, is very old in the United States, has been vulgarized by being turned into a ballad of ten little nigger boys. It is given in Mrs. Valentine's Nursery Rhymes as "Indian boys." [23] It is not generally known that Sir H. A. Layard and Sir William Drake were the true revivers of the glass manufacture of Venice. [24] See the "Algonkin Legends of New England," by Charles G. Leland. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Gypsy Sorcery and Fortune Telling, by Charles Godfrey Leland