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Rh the king idol, and lay prostrate before the image, he and three-fourths of his men mysteriously disappeared.

This was direct invocation, but the fire rites which were continued so long afterwards were really only worshipping the sun by proxy, in his nearest likeness, fire.

Samhain was then a day sacred to the death of the sun, on which had been paid a sacrifice of death to evil powers. Though