Greencastle Star, Greencastle, Putnam County, 2 July 1881 — Page 5

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EBB AND FLOW. Life throbs with tides that ebb and flow. With things that come, and things that go, I The mists that rise when morn is fair, i That rise and float, then melt in air, Are not more transient in their stay j Than are the hours that sped away; I For often lifeseems like a dream— Bo quickly Hash with glance and gleam A thousand things that come and go, And cause the tides to ebb and flow. A sad sweet strain that's borne along By breath of wind; a bit of song; A few fond words when dear friends meet; 'i 11* music of n Laugh that*! sweat s The sympathy that prompts a sigh; A wlnsom lace that passes by; Brief joys, that stay their little while; ' A kindly glance, a loving smile— j These overcome, and ever go, | And like the tides they ebb and How. 1 A lovely landscape, fair and bright, i One moment seen, then lost to sight; The gorgeous clouds at set of suti, j That crown the day when it is done; i The frosty pictures on the pane, ; That fade, and come, and fade again; The curling sm< »ke t h ti float a awaj , A snow wreath on a winter's day— 1 All these like waves that ebb and How, With ceaseless throb sdill come and go. .V. r. Trtfmnc.

pictures of the mirage which led to ominous in its nature, and to presage ' carelessness about economizingliis skin j death and other misfortune. Thus, in I of water, the mirage gained its present Buckinghamshire, a species of this j name—llahr Sheitan, or Devil's Wa- ' phenomenon locally known as “the 1 rer.” Thus, oftentimes, the harmless , wat,” was said to haunt prisons.

and beautiful phenomena in nature j Oftentimes before the arrival of the .. i Ol * have been invested with an evil name, 1 judges at the assizes it has, wo are told. I hp Pp^f on! 11 L» UPG simply because our ancestors, living in I been known to make its appearance | ■ VS I tot* L v/iitii V/ui

the childhood of the world, were una- ' like a little flame, being considered < ble to comprehend their meaning, and fatal to every prisoner to whom it be- j so, in all the freshness of their creative ! came visible. The same dread is at- !

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THE MTI li-O’-TlIEAVISl*.

Among the many sources of superstition in this and other countries, the phenomenon well-known as the Will-o’-the-Wisp has from time immemorial held a prominent place. Indeed, it would be no easy task to enumerate the various shapes in which the imagination has pictured this mysterious ap-

pearance, not to mention the manifold ! « u: ‘ rtl tl | oru - wh,!U . ht! >' ‘‘PP« ar - legends that have clustered round it. « to , , turn one s cap inside out. One In days gone by, when our credulous should never pomt at them, as thev will forefathers believed in the intervention f. orao lf P oml< :'* at : 11 ^ lllso 8a, 1 d that * of fairies in human alVairs, the Will-o’- ! lf a ."y. or ? l! calU thcm - tho y wil1 coluu

the-Wisp entered largely into their notions respecting the agency of these little beings in their dealings with mankind; and, as will be seen in the course of the present paper, numerous stories were often related in which some fairy

fancy, regarded them as demoniacal | tached to it in Sussex, and Mrs. Latham, agencies to thwart and hinder man’s i in her “West Sussex Superstitions,” progress in moral culture. Strange, j tells us that in a village where she once

therefore, as it may seem, we in our ! resided the direction of its rapid, undu-, Q eo w Brown, 48|MarBi»ll street, Provinineteenth century have in many of the lating movement was always carefully ‘lenco, K. i cured i>y Cuth ura KemediM of » legends that survive in this and other | observed, from an anxiety io ascertain 'V,"ne*k*ard*fao<‘ W *and countries relicsof Aryan science, which, ! where it would disappear, as it was be- io' r r "ii years'rc.tisted'airkiii'ls of ?r < eatment. ,n

although meaningless to the casual oh-1 lieved to be ' citim uniuirto server, yet embody the teaching of ** The hateful mosscnirer of heavy thins*, SKIN HUMOR,

primitive man. Of death tuid dolor telling.”

In this country the Will-o’-the-Wisp to the inhabitants of the house nearest BrothVra.D^Voit.'^lch “Vi^aL MtonY.hlM has been connected with the fairy race ] that spot. Considerable alarm was on account of hi* case (Eczema Rodent i. which from early times, a fact proved by its one occasion created by a pale light be- ^^^VShoutVel.e^ andwh'c^M.eediD Weldold name of Eif-ltre. 1 lie same notion, mg observed to move over the bed of a ed to the Cuticum itesoWent internally and too, existed in Germany; for Grimm sick person, and, after flickering for Cuticuraand Cuticura 8oap externally,

informs us that it was there formerly some time in diflerent parts of the coai n HFAD known as Elglicht, ami in Denmark as room, to vanish through the window. St/rti-U nt.HU,

Vacttylis. On this point Mr. Brand It happened, however, that the mystery | p. a. Raymond, Auditor F. W., J. has rightly remarked that the naturalists was soon afterward cleared up, for, as & S. it. K., Jackson. Mich. , was ruridof of the dark ages “owed many obi iga- Mrs. Latham tells us. “when reading ■‘c»t* ) bcadof^nine your*’duration by the tuti-

tions to our fairies, for, whatever they in her room after midnight, all at onca 1 found wonderful and could not account something fell upon the open page and | ECZEMA, for, they easily got rid of by charging | appeared to have ignited it. She soon j perceived that the light proceeded from * Hon. Wm. Taylor, Boston. Mass., henna1 » . i • i i.i nently cured of a humor ol the lace and acali* a luminous insect, winch proved to he been treated un*ucce*sfully the male glow-worm.” In the same for twelve years by many of Boston’* best I'hyway the " corpse candle” in Wales, Bcian* and most noted speciali.ts, as well a.

aLso called the “ fetch-light,” or .. tluad . European author,tie*, man’s candle,” is regarded as an orain-j MILK CRUST,

ous sign, and believed to be a forerun-

nor OI death. Sometimes it appears ini Mrs, Bowers, U3 Clinton street, Cinthe form of a plain tallow-can,\fe in the ^ur.p Wilk^eru7t, whioh’ resiVtV.M hand of aghost, and at other times it! remedies for two years; now a fine, healthy looks like a “stately flambeau, stalking | w ' l h a beautiful head of hair,

along unsupported, burning with a ghastly blue flame.” It is considered dangerous to interfere with this fatal potent; and persons who have attempted to check its course arc reported to have come severely to grief, many ac-

to their account. Thus they called those which have since been supposed to have been the heads of arrows or spears, before the use of iron was

known, Elfshots.”

A Danish tradition affirms that Jack-o’-lanterns arc the spirits of unrighteous men, who by a false glimmer seek to mislead the wayfarer and to decoy him into bogs and moors. The best safe-

and light the person who called. A popular belief in Sweden says that “ Jack-with-the-Lantern” was formerly a mover of landmarks, and for his unjust acts is doomed to wander backward and forward with a light in his hand, as if he were in search of something.

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j note that, although in these enlightened : days every relic of primitive culture is | gradually fading from our gaze, the old i superstitious fancies associated with

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this nocturnal visitor still survive with ! more or less vigor, retaining that hold | on the vulgar mind which they formcrI ly possessed. Thus, in remote villages and secluded country nooks the peas- ' ant, while not forgetting the traditions handed down to him, continues to believe with implicit faith in those quaint and weird fancies which have invested Ute Will-o’-the-Wisp with such a peculiar dread. This terror, as we J shall point out, in a great measure i originated in the many tales and legi ends that were in past centuries framed 1 to explain and account for this decept-

J ive phenomenon.

Referring, then, in the first place, to i the various names assigned to it—many | of these are extremely curious, differing | according to the country and locality, i Its most popular appellation, Will-o’- ! the-Wisp, was probably derived from I its customary appearance; this wandering meteor having been personified | because it looked to the spectators like • a person carrying a lighted straw torch ! in his hand. Hence it has been termed j Jack, Gill, Joan, Will or Robin, indifI ferently, in accordance with the fancy of the rustic mind; the supposed spirit of the lamp being thought to resemble either a male or female apparition. Hentzner, for instance, in his “Travels in England” (1598), relates how, returning from Canterbury to Dover, “there were a great many Jack-a-lanthorns, so that we were quite seized

with horror and amazement.” In Worcestershire, the phenomenon

is termed by the several names of “ Hob-and-his-Lanthorn,” “Hobany’s Lanthorn” and “ Hoberdy’sLanthorn” —the word Hob in each ease being the same name as occurs in connection with the phrase hobgoblin. It appears that, in days gone by. Hob was a frequent

| name among common people. It is called, by the French and Spun-

iards inhabiting the coasts of the Med- | iterranean, St. Helene's or St. Telme’s | fires; by the Italians, the lire of St. : Peter and St. Nicholas. It is also known as the lire of St. Helen, St. ilcrm | and St. Clare. Whenever it anpeared ! as a single llatno it was supposed by the | ancients to bo Helena, the sister of Castor and Pollux, and to bring ill luck, from the calamities which this lady is known to have caused in the Trojan war. When it came as a double flame, it was called Castor and Pollux, and accounted a good omen. It has also been described as a little blaze of lire, sometimes appearing by night on the tops of soldiers lances, or at sea on masts and sail-yards, whirling and leaping in the twinkling of an eye from one place to another. According to some, it never appears but after a tempest, and is supposed to lead people to suicide by

drowning.

A curious illustration of this phenomenon is recorded in “Hakluyt’s Voyages” (15;)8, iii, 450): “1 do remember that in the great and boisterous storm of this foul weather, in the night there came upon the top of our mainyard and mainmast a certain little light, much like unto the light of a little candle, which the Spaniards call the Cucrpo Sunh). 'I his light eontinued aboard our ship about three hours, flying from mast to mast, and from top to top; and sometimes it would be in two or three places at once.” This meteor was by some supposed to be a spirit, and by others an exhalation of moist vapors, thought to be engendered by foul and tempestuous weather. Referring, in the next place, to the legends associated with the Will-o’-the-Wisp, we may mention that these, although differing in many respects, generally invest this strange mimicry in nature with the supernatural elo- | uMut, which i* said to be generally cx- | orcised for the purpose of deluding, in some way or other, the benighted trav- ] eler. Indeed, it would seem that in past centuries, whatever phenomena were of an apparently illusive or hosI t ile character, were regarded by primi- | live science as specially designed to work pain or evil, even although, by ; way of treacherous bait, they might ' possess the most attractive qualities. | Thus, as Mr. Conway has pointed out j in his work on “Demonology and Devil i Lore,” because many a pilgrim “peri ished through a confidence in the lake-

guilty of such a crime is believed to have no peace or rest in his grave alter death, but to rise every midnight, and, with a lantern in his hand, to proceed to the spot where in days gone by the landmark had stood which he had fraudulently removed. On reaching the place, however, he is seized, says Mr. Thorpe, with the same desire which instigated him in his lifetime when he went forth to remove his neighbor’s landmark, and he says as he goes, in a harsh, hoarse voice: “It is right! it is right! it is right!” But. on his returning. qualms of conscience and anguish seize him, and he then exclaims: “ It is wrong! it is wrong! it is wrong!” 'There is also a Danish tradition which informs us that near Skovby, on the Isle of Falster, there arc many Jack-o’-Lauterns. They are believed to bo the souls of land-measurers, who, having in their lifetime perpetrated injustice in their measurements, arc doomed to run up Skovby bakke at midnight, which they measure with red-hot irons, ex-

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one day, when the coach which runs between Llandilo and Carmarthen was passing by Golden Grove, three corpsecandles were observed on the surface of tiie water gliding down the stream which runs near the road. All the passengers sasv them. A few days alter, some men were about to cross the river near there, when one of them expressed his fear at venturing, as the river was flooded, and he remained behind. Thus the fatal number crossed the river— three—three corpse-candles having foretold their fate; and all were drowned. In conclusion, wo would only add that Will-o’-the-Wisps have long ago happily disappeared from all marshes and lowlands as soon as drained and brought under cultivation—these “wild-fires,”

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a Dutch parson, happening to go home to his village late one evening, fell in with no less than three of these fiery phenomena. Remembering them to he the souls of unbaptized children, be

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lion and surprise, in the twinkling of an eye a thousand or more of these ap-1 parations suddenly made their appearance no doubt earnestly wanting to be baptized. The good man, runs the story, was so terribly frightened, that, forgetting all his kind intentions, he took to his heels and ran home as fast as his legs could take him. In Lusatia, where the same superstition prevails, these fires are supposed to lie quite | harmless, and the souls of the unbaptized children to be relieved from their destined wanderings so soon as any pious hand throws a handful of consecrated ground after them. A i Brittany piece of folk-lore is that the | “Porle-brandon” appears in the form ! of child bearing a torch, which lie turns around like a burning wheel—occasionally selling lire to the villages which from some inexplicable cause are suddenly wrapped in flames. Ac-

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children can not enter heaven, they, under the form of “Jaek-o‘-Lnuterns,” take their abode in the forests, and in dark and desert places, where they mourn over their bitter lot. Whenever they are fortunate enough to see any one, they run up and hasten before him, iu order to show the way to some water, that they may get baptized. Should no one take compassion on them, it is said that they must forever remain

without the gates of Paradise.

Among other legends connected with this subject, we may mention one current on the Continent, tints recorded by Carl Engel: On the ridge of tin* high Rhon, near Bischofshettn, there are two morasses—known as the red and black morass—where two villages are reported to have stood which sunk into the earth on account of the dissolute life of the inhabitants. On these two morasses there appear at night maidens in tiio shape of dazzling apparitions of light. They float and flutter over the light of their former home, but are now less frequently seen than in the olden time. A good many years ago, two or threeof these fiery maidens came occasionally to the village of Wustersachseu ami mingled with the dancers at wakes. They sang with inexpressible sweetness; but they never remained beyond midnight. When their allowed time had elapsed there always came flying a white dove, which they followed, 'then they went to the mountain singing, and soon vanished out of the sitrht of the people who followed, watching them with curiosity. Such are some of the principal legends and superstitions that have been connected with this strange phenomenon, the majority of which, while investing it with a supernatural origin, regard it as an object of terror; and, on this account, in our own and other countries, the peasantry still look upon it as a thing to be avoided. It was formerly thought to have something

odder one right up an’ down wicked; but you nnisn’t talk what ye know. One blunt word will upsot ahull naybnrhood. One truful statement will | raise up a host of howlin’ inimies. De j pusson who won’t flatter an’ cajole am j avoided and suspected. De biggest inI have in all dis world am peo-

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Greeneastle, Indiana, June 28, 1881, 2tll