Legends of Old Testament characters, from the Talmud and other sourcesBaring-Gould, S. (Sabine)
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Legends of Old Testament characters, from the Talmud and other sources
Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)
Bible. Old Testament -- Legends; Jewish legends
Davies, Mythology of the British Druids, London, 1809; and Celtic
Researches, London, 1844: curious works on the Arkite worship and
traditions of the Kelts.
Footnote 229:
The prose Edda; Mallet, Northern Antiq., ed. Bohn, p. 404.
Footnote 230:
Grimm, Deutsche Mythol.; Göttingen, 1854, p. 545.
Footnote 231:
The same story precisely is told by the closely allied race of the
Chippewas: Atherne Jones, Traditions of the North American Indians,
London, 1830, ii. p. 9 et seq.
Footnote 232:
Lütke, Voyage autour du Monde, i. p. 189.
Footnote 233:
Braunschweig, Die alten amerik. Denkmäler; Berlin, 1840, p. 18.
Footnote 234:
Atherne Jones, Traditions of the N. American Indians, ii. 21-33.
Footnote 235:
Catlin, Letters and Notes on the Manners, &c., of the N. American
Indians; London, 1841.
Footnote 236:
Mayer, Mytholog. Taschenbuch; Weimar, 1811, p. 245.
Footnote 237:
Schoolcraft, Notes on the Iroquois; New York, 1847, p. 358.
Footnote 238:
Müller, Geschichte des amerikanischen Urreligionen, Basle, 1855, p.
515; Lüken, Die Traditionen des Menschengeschlechts, p. 223.
Footnote 239:
Humboldt, Anh. des Cordilleren, i. p. 42.
Footnote 240:
Antonio de Herrera, Hist. general de los Hechos, &c.; Madrid, 1601,
iii. c. 10.
Footnote 241:
Compare Lüken and Müller.
Footnote 242:
Humboldt, Reise in die Aequinoctial Gegenden, iii. pp. 406-7.
Footnote 243:
Nachrichten aus dem Lande Guiana, v. Salvator Gili; Hamb., 1785, pp.
440-1, quoted by Lüken.
Footnote 244:
Garcilasso de la Vega, Hist. des Yncas; Amst., i. pp. 73 and 326.
Footnote 245:
Ausland, Jan. 1845, No. 1.
XVI.
THE PLANTING OF THE VINE.
Bowed under his toil, dripping with perspiration, stood the patriarch
Noah, labouring to break the hard clods. All at once Satan appeared and
said to him,—
“What new undertaking have you in hand? What new fruit do you expect to
extract from these clods?”
“I plant the grape,” answered the patriarch.
“The grape! proud plant, most precious fruit! joy and delight to men!
Your labour is great; will you allow me to assist you? Let us share the
labour of producing the vine.”
The patriarch in a fit of exhaustion consented.
Satan hastened, got a lamb, slaughtered it, and poured its blood over
the clods of earth. “Thence shall it come,” said Satan, “that those who
taste of the juice of the grape, shall be soft-spirited and gentle as
this lamb.”
But Noah sighed; Satan continued his work; he caught a lion, slew that,
and poured the blood upon the soil prepared for the plant. “Thence shall
it come,” said he, “that those who taste the juice of the grape shall be
strong and courageous as the lion.”
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