Lye’s dictionary cites another goddess, Ricen, with the translation Diana, which he seems to have taken from some Cotton MS. It stands too isolated for us to make any successful investigation, but I may be excused for calling to mind the fact that Diana is mentioned by the versifying chroniclers as among the Saxon gods, and also that the superstition known in Germany as the “Wild Hunt,” and which is properly connected with Wóden, goes very generally among us by the name of Ludus Dianae. This, which became the foundation of many a cruel persecution, under the name of witchcraft, is spread over every part of Germany in one form or another: sometimes it is [the daughter of] Herodias who is compelled for ever to expiate her fatal dancing; at other times we have Minerva or Bertha, Holda, Habundia, Dame Abonde, Domina, Hera—the Lady, and so on. It is true that our fragmentary remains of Saxon heathendom do not contain any immediate allusions to this superstition, but yet it can scarcely be doubted that it did exist here as it did in every part of the continent[705], and one therefore would not willingly decide at once against there having been some deity who might be translated by Diana in the _interpretatio Romana_. ----- Footnote 705: “In contrariam partem est auctoritas decreti xxvi. 9. y. c. epi. Ita ibi legitur. Illud non est obmittendum, quod quedam scelerate mulieres retro post Sathan converse, demonum illusionibus et fantasmatibus seducte, credunt se et profitentur cum Diana nocturnis horis dea paganorum, vel cum Herodiade et innumera multitudine mulierum, equitare super quasdam bestias et multa terrarum spatia intempeste noctis silentio pertransire, eius iussionibus obedire veluti domine, et certis noctibus ad eius servitium evocari.” Hieronymi Vicecomitis opusculum Lamiarum vel Striarum. Mediol. 1490. John of Salisbury notices this in his Polyczaticus, and Henry More in his Mystery of Godliness. See Salom. Sat. p. 125, _seq._ -----