[324] There is, as far as we are aware, no vestige of these names remaining in either the French or English language, and we cannot conceive how the Latin names of sea-gods came to be applied to the Gotho-German Kobolds, etc. [325] Dimidium _pollicis_. Should we not read _pedis_? [326] Otia Imperialia _apud Leibnitz Scriptores rerum Brunsvicarum_, vol. i. p. 980. [327] Can this name be connected with that of Grendel, the malignant spirit in Beówulf? [328] Edited for the Percy Society by J. P. Collyer, Esq., 1841. Mr. Collyer says there is little doubt but that this work was printed before 1588, or even 1584. We think this is true only of the First Part; for the Second, which is of a different texture, must have been added some time after tobacco had come into common use in England: see the verses in p. 34. [329] Mr. Collyer does not seem to have recollected that Huon de Bordeaux had been translated by Lord Berners; see above, p. 56. [330] It is, according to this authority the man-fairy Gunn that steals children and leaves changelings. [331] Discoverie of Witchcrafte, iv. ch. 10. [332] R. Scot, Discoverie of Witchcrafte, ii. ch. 4. [333] _Ib._ vii. 15. [334] This appears to us to be rather a display of the author's learning than an actual enumeration of the objects of popular terror; for the maids hardly talked of Satyrs, Pans, etc. For Bull-beggar, see p. 316; for Urchin, p. 319. _Hag_ is the Anglo-Saxon [Old English: hægeise], German _hexe_, "witche," and hence the Nightmare (see p. 332) which was ascribed to witches; we still say _Hag-ridden_. Calcar and Sporn (spurs?) may be the same, from the idea of riding: the French call the Nightmare, _Cauchemare_, from _Caucher_, _calcare_. Kit-wi-the-Canstick is Jack-with-the-Lanthorn. The Man in the Oak is probably Puck, "Turn your cloakes, quoth hee, for Pucke is busy in these oakes."--Iter Boreale. The Hell-wain is perhaps the Death-coach, connected with Northern and German superstitions, and the Fire-drake an Ignis Fatuus. Boneless may have been some impalpable spectre; the other terms seem to be mere appellations of Puck. [335] Anat. of Mel. p. 47. [336] Chap. xx. p. 134. Lond. 1604. [337] This is, we apprehend, an egg at Easter or on Good Friday. _Housle_ is the Anglo-Saxon [Old English: husel]; Goth. _hunsl_, sacrifice or offering, and thence the Eucharist. [338] Terrors of the Night, 1594. [339] Hutchinson, History of Cumberland, vol. i. p. 269. [340] As quoted by Thoms in his Essay on Popular Songs, in the Athenæum for 1847. [341] Morgan, Phœnix Britannicus, Lond. 1732. [342] Pandemonium, p. 207. Lond. 1684. [343] Aubrey, Natural History of Surrey, iii 366, _ap._ Ritson, Fairy Tales, p. 166. [344] The Local Historian's Table-Book, by M. A. Richardson, iii. 239. Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1846. [345] Bourne, Antiquitates Vulgares, 1725. [346] Quoted by Brand in his Popular Antiquities, an enlarged edition of Bourne's work.