“Amongst these humours of Melancholy, the phisitions place a kinde of madnes, by the Greeks called _Lycanthropia_, termed by the Latines _Insania Lupina_, or _Wolves furie_: which bringeth a man to this point (as Attomare affirmeth), that in Februarie he will goe out of the house in the night _like a wolfe_, hunting about the graves of the dead with great howling: _and plucke the dead men’s bones out of the sepulchres, carrying them about the streets_, to the great fear and astonishment of all them that meete him: And the foresaide author affirmeth, that melancholike persons of this kinde have pale faces, soaked and hollow eies, with a weak sight, never shedding one tear to the view of the world,” etc. And that this was epidemic amongst the Irish is proved by _Spenser’s_ testimony, when, drawing a parallel between the Scythians and the Irish of his day, he says: “Also, the Scythians said, that they were once a year turned into wolves; and so it is written of the Irish: though Martin Camden, in a better sense, doth suppose it was a disease, called lycanthropia, so named of the wolf: and yet some of the _Irish doe use to make the wolf their gossip_.” Thus it appears, that the Irish were not only acquainted with the _nature_ of this _sickness_, but also with the knack of _taming_ that _animal_ of which it bore the name. All this was connected with the worship of Apollo, and with Eastern mythology. Nay, the very _dogs_, for which our country was once famous,[536] and which were destined as protectors against the ravages of the _wolf_, are clear, from Ctesias, to have had their correspondents in India. The epithet _Lyceus_, I conceive, now elucidated; and so leave to yourself to _penetrate_ the rest of those devices. But I shall not, at the same time, take leave of the “_Valley of the Two Lakes_.”[537] On one of the loose stones, which remain after this wreck of magnificence, you will see a full delineation of “The history of Dahamsonda, King of Baranes (_modern Benares_), who, as his name implies, was a zealous lover of religious knowledge; and was _incarnated_, in order to be tried between his _attachment to religion_ and his zeal for the _salvation of the world_ on the one side, and his love to _his own life_, and his _attachment to his kingdom_ and wealth, as well as his kindred and friends, on the other; for which purpose the gods had gradually and completely _withdrawn the light of religious knowledge_ from the world by the time of his accession to the throne.”[538] This king, in his anxiety to regain the _lost_ condition of mankind--to recover their literature and their _ancient_ knowledge of religion, instructs his courtiers to proclaim the offer of a casket of gold, “as a reward to any person” who would instruct his majesty in the mysteries of the _Bana_,[539] that is, the Budhist _Gospel_, with a view to its salutary repropagation.