| and many others. | | | | [317] This may, however, be considered merely as a conjecture, | | founded upon the following passage in _Ludolf’s_ Lexicon Æthiopic. | | Ed. 2da. Francof. 1699. fol. p. 142. _Astarāgaza_, de vexatione | | quadam diabolica accipitur. Marc. i. 26. ix. 18. Luc. ix. 39. | | Græcus habet σπαράττειν, vellicare, discerpere. _Sed Æthiopes, | | teste Gregorio, pro morbo quodam accipiunt, quo quis perpetuo pedes | | agitare et quasi calcitrare cogitur._ Fortassis est Saltatio S. | | Viti, vulgo St. Veitstanz. | | | | [318] The Life and Adventures of _Nathaniel Pearce_, written by | | himself, during a residence in Abyssinia, from the year 1810 to | | 1819. London, 1831. 8vo. Vol. I. ch. ix. p. 290. | | | | [319] The Evangelist and _St. John_ the Baptist have been at all | | times, and among all nations, confounded with each other, so that | | the relation of the latter to one and the same phenomenon in such | | different ages and climates is very probable. | | | | [320] She was a native Greek. | | | | [321] _Pearce_, p. 289. Compare p. 34.—_E. G. Förstemann_, Die | | christlichen Geisslergesellschaften. The Christian Societies of | | Flagellants. Halle, 1828. 8vo. | | | | [322] Idem, loc. cit. | | | | [323] Among the ancient Greeks βασκήσις. This superstition is more | | or less developed among all the nations of the earth, and has not | | yet entirely disappeared from Europe. | | | | [324] _Paracelsus._ | | | | [325] Gentleman’s Magazine, 1787, March, p. 268.—_F. B. Osiander_, | | Ueber die Entwickelungskrankheiten in den Blüthenjahren des | | weiblichen Geschlechts. On the disorders of young women, &c. | | Tübingen, 1820, Vol. I. p. 10. | | | | [326] This account is given by _Fritze_. _Hufeland’s_ Journal der | | practischen Heilkunde, Vol. XII. 1801. Part I. p. 110. Hufeland’s |