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 Feiuumt; 1875 | AECILE0L0G1CAL NOTES. 4, zrn Thin form occurs in the nmtfli passage igB *B (Hal. Zi% 6), wttiafe i- |> -rhnps to ho tmrtBlfttr'i I ' SJ 'fording to the writing.' The meauuig i'f ;irr (Ifal. .VJ -it ill mum obscure. The cau8»l ctnyuiietkuiy in n- tppondcd huve i.i?8t analogies in tho northern sister lan- guage* .— L rtb firefly means en  occur*, QSpflOftQ; the plinth jnxcm to m ¥i ("«- TO. N, vm. 12, 'and in order that good! may happen con- tinually (lit. and in order that good should be, and that good Ik).' 2, pa. Tho original son hi of this pw appear* to lie itccvnh'nff, in conformity : thai* -reel Sen jb ttScm (0*. xill. S, 4), ' (Jba ha* lu'ard him) in his request, in conformity to what ho had asked from him,' Am a conjunction tho wwd pi scarcely differs from yra. and tho in. •crinttang of Amrin furnish numerous cjuuii- pk-s of thifl Sfthnjaji | tf. -ta^ 1 iu Shi*, •"» rmjtiTd to ihU = Arabic ck-* TV- 1 1 resent no example of any iptea j oo t iapi. £t>f of tkc Ptrticto . C r- ■M 3 pi fta WJ r rrta, rfl WTO CT, =* n* TT3 <B3 top* 1 ^32% rt ^3rt n* ytdft^rfcef. 77T 19 EiTM ARCHJSOLO0WAL NOTES. BY 3L J, WAliHOTJSB, LATE M.O.S. I i —Folklore* — Snakt-ttvna. It id remarkable how ancient and widely- Bprond npsara to 1ms of snnkoa boar- ing iu Ihtir bcodr. Si motifb] Of magical prnpirtittft, the obtain in ff of which is a feat of QtBUMt difficulty and ilangcr. Thu idea, is ilonhtl - "f lisfltem origin, and in generally flonnoelcd with tin.- bol of oonooalod treasure, and Mlmspkssncs?, und i«- mght, that in popular imag'inatiun [ft-ftVK oharactorixed the dragon — ipawv — • he beholder, —a belief springing front tho fiwoinafing ntfl nwribod, aiul apparently with truth, to Uu rpent«< The Huakc yf Persian trailition has It vuttitt utono, ealk'J M"hmh, in it* head, by which it i«"t-s conrpaled treasure. In tbi nf Ajiollonius Tysnanui there are * vcHimik stories of hngu Indian serpents, which divided into those haunting marsb«t plains ant] mortmains respectively ; und tho way in which the Indian* dwrmy ihem is told as rot* lowi : "They spread a silken rolw Inwoven with gulden, letters hefora tho entrance of the ser- pent's rave, and thoRO lffttora, being mngin*J, bring on sleep, eo thnt llm eysji ofthn si^rpont, ugh WO wjund like brass whwi the l-ivuTuiv ttiovea— an- other inntanco of tho idea of slouplusauBia), ore ovcroomo, and tlum with powerful incantatimw thuy so atlnre the wrpent as to be abb to oast over it thu magical rube, which induces sound ashing on it, Ui4) Indian* « iK lnud with an axe, and tuko out certain small stonPH found heads nf the mountain-sprpenrs aro said to contain ■nudl stones very benn 1 1 fid, and endowed with a pf-cnliar lustra and wonderful virtues. Such a stone wm i ii I ha ring I hat Gyjres is said to have po*se«ed." This acconnt is most probably a wildly exag*
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