[76] Speaking of the Vad Velen, the Yellow Plague, in Britain, we are told in the _Mabinogion_ that all who saw him were doomed to die. [77] This story somewhat resembles that of the old hag seen by Lord Seaforth when lying ill of scarlet fever with several of his schoolfellows. The narrative has been reprinted several times, and is included in Stead's _More Ghost Stories_, p. 37. [78] Such origins are common in Esthonian and Finnish folk-literature, and I regard them as relics of fetishism. [79] _Kalevipoeg_, Canto 9, lines 769-925. Neus, _Ehstnische Volkslieder_, pp. 305-311. The manner in which the gathering symbols of the horrors of war, each more terrible than the last, are successively brought upon the scene in this poem is very fine. [80] _Kalevipoeg_, xix. 493-583. [81] Kreutzwald and Neus, _Mythische und magische Lieder_, p. 7. Charms of this kind are very common in Finland and Esthonia, and a whole volume has been published by the Finnish Literary Society under the name of _Loitsurunoja_, selections from which have been recently published in "Folklore" by the Hon. John Abercromby.