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THE BALTIC, THE BLACK SEA, AND THE CRIME...
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Ennemoser's History Of Ma.Gic. The Bisto...
diction , Iq sacrifice , consecration , and miracles . ( Mark v . 23 , vi . 5 , vii . 33 , viii . 23 ; Lnke iv . 40 , & c- ) In raising the deaa , & c . In Daniel , chap , x , we find the following passage : — " And in the four and twentieth day of the first month , as I was by the side of the great river , whush is Hiddekel ; then I lifted up mine eyes , and looked , and behold a certain man clothed in . linen , whose loins were girded with fine gold of Uphaz , & c , and Daniel alone saw the vision ; for the men that were with me saw not the vision ; but a great quaking fell upon them , so that they fled to hide themselves . Therefore I was left alone and saw this great vision , and there remained no strength in me ; for my comeliness was turned in me into corruption , and I retained no strength . Yet I heard the voice of his words , and when X heard tlie voice of his words , then was 1 in a deep sleep on my face , and toy face towards -the ground ; and behold an hand touched me , which set me upon my knees and upon the palms of my hands . " In the interpretation of Nebuchadnezzar ' s dream we find ( Daniel fi ) when all the astrologers , magicians , and . Chaldasans , could not explain the king ' s dr « am— " Then Daniel went in , and desired of the king that he would give him time , and that he would show the king the interpretation . Then Daniel went to his house , and made the thing known to Hananlah , ¦»«?_ t 1 1 »_ T . T _ t _ : ? _ A . \ L * 1 » ~ . U J ? Z /? ^ t . l" * l 1 *• TT iuu azariiiuuis uuiu uesire ie 01
jxusuaei , : . , ( . uiugajiuwa , vuuu mcv « merc- * or me uuu neaveu -concerning this secret , that Daniel and his fellows sliould not perish with , the rest of the -wise men of Babylon . Then was the secret revealed unto Daniel in a night vision . " According to the explanation of Calmet ( Dictionnaire Hebr .: article Main ) the Land laid upon the propliets means ten hands ; making Daniel and his fellows wiser than tbe wise men of Babylon . When we find " the hand of the Lord was -with him , " it sign 5 fi . es the coiinsel and aid of < 3 od , to sjeak truth and do good . In chapter i . v . 66 , of Luke , we find of Zacharias that ¦" the hand of the Lord was with him ; " and of the Apostles , that " thehand of the Lord Tras with theayand they did signs and miracles . " In these passages , therefore , the hand is spoken of metaphorically as producing prophetic inspiration , and yrorMng miracles . The Apostles laid their haJids on those who believed , and they received the Holy Ghost . We see here the same proceedings as in magnetism , —the same attributes of the hand , the same Functions , the same results ; but vrith the difference between the divine power and ¦ will and -that of man . Thelaying on of hands is not absolutely necessary in magnetism ; a finger auffices , or in spine cases contact is unnecessary ; in perfect communication the wall is . sufficient , without using the hand as a conducting medium . In the Bible we also rind , the finger of God often used metaphorically : miracles and signs were by the finger of God . ^ We lave already alluded to Ennemoser ' s first volume as containing the history of magic in general , and of magic in particular as it existed among the ancient nations . The second volume is occupied with Magic in Mythology , Magic among the Germans , the Doctrines of the famous Mystics of the Middle Ages , and the phenomena of Animal Magnetism , is an historian , the author shows no tendency to get clearer arid more comprehensible as he approaches modern times . Hie is as dreamy ,. indeiinite , and involved , among the mystics of the Middle Ages as he -was among the sorcerers of ancient Egypt- ' * " vre ar « to present any extracts from the second volume , we shall best consult the reader ' s interests by avoiding all the ambitious and speculative passages before us , and quoting only this very quaint and diverting ; list of the Sympathetic Superstitions which were once devoutly believed in by thousands and thousands of the human race : — SYMPATHETIC SUPERSTITIONS . When women boil yarn , they must tell a lie at the same tirrie , otherwise it will not eet ¦ white . Parents must nob buy their children any rattles , nor allow any to be given them , or they Tvill be alow at learning , and will speak with difficulty . When you take straw fora hen * s nest out of a marriage bed , you must take it from the man's side if you want cock chickens , and from the wife ' s if you want hen chickens . No one must on any account weigh an . empty cradle , or he will weigh the child ' s rest away ., . Tho nails on the hands of an infant must be bitten off by the mother the first time , or it ¦ 'will leain to steal . If you wish a child to become a hundred years old , you must get it godfathers out of three different parishes . ' If yea let a child look into a looking-glass before it is a year old , it will become proud . Children that cry at christening , will die soon . Let a mother go three Sundays successively out of the church in silence , and blow each time into the mouth of her child , and it will get its teeth easy . Let tlie father immediately after the christening give the child a sword in its hand , and it ¦ will become brave . Blue cornflowers gathered on Oorpus-Christi Sunday stop tho bleeding of tho nose if they are held in the hand till they are warm . A woman can cure her ear-ache by binding a man's stocking round her bead . Elder planted before the stable-door preserves theeattle from witchcraft . He who carnca about him a cord with which a rapture doctor has bound up a rupture , may lift the heaviest weight without any danger . A pieoo of wood out of a coffin that lias been dug up , when , laid in a cabbage bed defends it from caterpillars . b One should not lean over a cradlo where a child is sleeping , nor should it bo left standing open . *" Splinters from an oak split l > y lightning cure tooth-ache . Ho who will bow aeed let him bo careful not to lay it on a tablo , otherwise it will not grow . Ho who has tho hiccup , lot him plunge a naked knife into a , oan of beer , and take a good draught of it at one breath . ' b Ho who cannot sleep , be it a child or adult , lot him lay a composing -whisp under his pillow ; that is , straw winch workwomen put under tho burdens on , their backs ; but it must be taken trom the people unknown to them . In b urning , toy a bunch of nettles in tlio barrel ; it is then safe against thunder . A wafe who has a cold muse sneeze into her huabamd ' a shoe . Jt is not good to strike a beast with a switch which has boon used to correct a child Cliaatiso neither man nor beast with a peeled stick , for whatever is beaten with it will When you place your shoos reversed at tho head of your bed , the nightmare cannot opx ) ttos 9 you * * 01 ( 1 i vvomen ofton cut a turf of a foot long whioh thoir enorny has lately trodden on and hung it up in tho chimney , and their enemy must wither nwny . Lot any one who hns groat anxiety touch tho grc 4 t too of a dead person , and ho will at once bocomo free from it . ' If n-ny one dies in the house , you must shako the beo-hivos , and tho wino and vinoear or tho been , the wine and tho vinegar , will all go off or spoil . ' The first medicine which a lying-in woman takes , should bo out of her husband ' a apoon it will then bo more efficacious . * ' Daring tho pains of child-birth , it doos pood to tuxn tho Banners of tho huabnnd round Three grama of milt mi n measure of milk prcaorvoa it from wlthcraft . No ono must tusto fcho first warm boor whioh is given to a lying-in woman : itmuat bo tried wltli the finger , othonviao tho womnn will bo attacked with colic . If n . child hns the rod-gmn , take a piece of wood from a luiU-wheol , burn it , and amoke the cluklfl awaddUng-cIofcuos therewith ) then wnsh tlio child with water that flows from tho ¦ wheel . Tho wood that remains must bo cast into running wator . You should never wean a ohild while trees nro in blossom : otherwise It will hava erov hair . b } Three buttons bound togother with a thread , and Litd in a coffin , will free from wn * ta . If nmy one bus received » bodily hurt , wash him with broolt-wutor while tho boll is tol ' llne for a funeral . b
With this extract we close a book which led us to expect much from it and which has greatly disappointed us . The so-called "Appendix" to the second volume , which occupies nearly two hundred pages , and which consists of nothing but old ghost stories , clumsily reproduced from other peoples ' printed narratives , is not worthy of criticism . We are astonished that Mr Bohn , who lias done the public good service by printing many excellent books at moderate prices , has also permitted the Appendix to Ennemoser ' s History of Magic to be published .
906 T H E L E A. D E R. [Saturday,
906 T H E L E A . D E R . [ Saturday ,
The Baltic, The Black Sea, And The Crime...
THE BALTIC , THE BLACK SEA , AND THE CRIMEA The Baltic , the Mack Sea-, and the Crimea . By Charles Henry Scott . Bentley . There are different ways of writing books of travel , but by far the pleasantest is that in which the author aims at little more than a simple description of the sights and scenes which interested himself . Such is the method adopted by Mr . Scott . " The book , " he tells us , " has no pretensions beyond a faithful narrative of things and persons seen and visited , with , the impressions to -which they gave rise ; and some short sketches of the various races encountered in these wanderings . " It possesses , however , another claim on public attention . The ground over which you are carried is , to a great extent , untrodden . " The voyage down the Volga from Nijni-Novgorod to Asfcrachan has-never been accomplished in the same manner by any travellers who have published their experiences . " And it is to a description of this and of the Crimea that by far the largest portion of the book is devoted . Our first extract shall be an account of Dr . Haase , the governor of the prison at Moscow : —
. " We drove on the morning of the 4 th of August , to the Sparrow Halls , near Moscow-There stands the gloomy prison , the temporary asylum of those condemned to Siberian banishment . Being armed with a kind of introduction to Dr . Haase , thegovernor , . yre soon made bis acquaintance . " We must here pause to say a few words of this extraordinary man . A German by birth , he had followed successfully Sie medical profession in Russia , and 3 iad devoted all his income to the relief of the unfortunate , wherever they were to be found ; amongst others , ' he visited _ and took an interest in the prisoners , who find Moscow a short resting-place on their weary journey to Siberia- He listened to their tales of woe , appealed to the authorities in their behalf , alleviated their sufferings , arid supplied their wants . Gradually his visits becamemore frequent , and after a time , whenever a fresh convoy was to leave , tlie good Dr . Haase was to be seen wending his way to the place of their confinement ; at last he was looked upon as almost necessary to tlie final arrangements for their departure . The name of this excellent man had become known to tho poor prisoners themselves , and they looked forward with pleasure to the moment for meeting him . That which would have been
regarded by the officials ( and there is no jaek-in-office more jealous than lie of Russia ) in any other man as impertinent interference , was overlooked in him ; and now for many years lie has been recognised by the IJmperor as governor of the prison , without having been positively appointed to the post . He has been decorated , but receives no pay or emolument ; his philanthropy being of that exalted kind , that it finds a more triumphant . and lasting reward in the execution of its ovvn divine impulses , than any amount of * filth y lucre' could bestow . " Such , then , was the man who now became known to us . We were received by him with kindness , and taken at once to see the prisoners , who were about to start on their journey of six thousand four hundred versts on foot and in chains , and which occupies seven months in its accomplashment . They had attended divine service , and now ranged xn a row , awaited only the usual final questions and adieus . There were in all about forty men and women ; each , of the former having one temple shaved , which gave a most disagreeable expression to _ the eye of that side , and in fact to the whole countenance . They had been committed for various crimes , from murder to simple robbery , but there were on this occasion no political offenders , la addition to the exiles , there were several women and children , the latter of allages under four years , the youngest being but a few wei'ks old ; these were tho wives and children of some of the men , accompanying them in their banishment . The Russian law permitting , but not forcing , the women to follow their husbands , and take with them all their children under the age wo have mentioned above , the marriage being dissolved in the event of the wives objecting to go .
" One poor creature , full of grief , petitioned Dr . Haaso to have her eldest child of three years sent after her b y t ho next convoy , as , from some informality , it had been left behind ; and this request was immediately granted , though she hud already two younger ones with her . Each individual in succession having been asked whether he had any request or complaint to make , and examined as to the state of his health , had a piece of money , and any other present , sent by tlie charitable for distribution , given him , and then they started , the men chained together in paii-s but the women beiug free . Carts were provided for tho wives und children , and any who might fall sick on tho road , and as far as liiy in tho power of Dr . Haase , the comforts of tho whole were attended to , and ho personally examined tho minutiai of the arrangements . " These prisoners march about fifteen or twenty miles a day , and have occasional resting days ; the hardships of their journey having boen greatly mitigated by the benevolunt exertions of this good man , persoveringly exorcised through a long series of years ; but as they recede irom the contro of power , their sufferings arc said to increase , and thoir numbers are
considerably diminished before they reach their destination . The greatest joy of tho life of Dr . Himso , is to watch the process of knocking the shackles from the logs- of the newly-arrived prisoners , thereby permitting tliuir week ' s sojourn in Moscow , which is tho central depot for twenty-two departments , to be really a time of rest . To see this , wo accompanied him after wo had watched tho sad procession which had just parted , for some little distance on its road . In n long low room we found about twenty man , who had come tlio day before from the provinces . A movement took place on our entering , and the rattling ohwUw gratod lmrshly on tho ear . A passing shade of pleasure lightod up tho countenance ,- } of most as Dr . Haaso passed amongst them , bufc was noon . succeeded by a state of passive resignation . A ho blacksmith waa in readiness with his tools , and one by one the strong rivets flow trorn the Bhaeklea . I wiah my powers permitted mo to describe tho expression of tliat kind nian p iaco as ho sat , th « type of the truo philanthropist : there was something mioro than pleasure ; tncro was religion in ovory lineament ; his eyes woro lighted by a holy lire , and ar < Ju"d hls » P 3 . played a smile of bencvolont joy , such us 1 had novor aoom before . Me now mingled with these prisoners , and addressed wor . ls of afliiotion und kindness to uamk uie
oyes « t ono became full of toara—tours , too , bonring all tho evidences of ilwp nnu gemmne feeling . Wo felt interested in this man , and inquired tiro nntturo of hla crime s to our surprise we , found Uo was nothing leaa than a murderer . Hero , thun , was u buinu whoso hands woro ( Uod in tho lifo ' a blood of his follow , yot whoao heart was molted like mi Infant « by- a tow words of kindly sympathy . Who knows what tlmt man might lmvo bcooino hud nia botter fool ngs bqon enrlior foaterod and encouraged ? Porhap . i that short Beutuiico Imd Deon almost tho hrat over addrcaond to him in tono » free Irom hurslnious or cruelty-A group attracted our attention ; it conuisled of throe young OoaaiioJk brothcra ; ono hmi 1 " a ° i ° Ti llcd tiomo moiltl >« bcslbro , but , having diaeaac of tho hoiu-t , luvd not bi-un lor * waraod to Sifcoriu . He = now implored Dr . ll . maa to permit him to iwsoompuny llw otlior two , w » o had juiitarrived , and hia wIhU wnagiatillo . l . , 1 mvu 7 " ° . yor tll ° prison , conajating of a largo quadninglo of onontory , hiwing tlio win-2 n towiinls tho court . Tho room * wore litud up with " benches ol wood , on wlucli tlio prisoners slopt without mnttrcasea j but thia is no hurdahlp to thorn , for , na wo « Ut « d bolore , « x ? i . r "" . ? " . a ^ n , t k" ? WH no BU 0 h luxui 7 « w «¦ "t"l- Dr . Humid informed ua , howovur , tlwt oxilea Irom tho higher claasoa wore provided with thorn . Pli ! nft . " np if ""Tm wpi M ' ^ oro ' wnm'IcH . bly lmndsorno-laoking rnun . Tlioy wore tho chiefs of abordor tabu aubmittod to RubdIii , but aomo Haonloion oflalldcHty huvlng fftllou
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 23, 1854, page 18, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_23091854/page/18/
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