The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1884-10-18

phoenix. This is beautiful legend, a
yearning, it hS been eloquently
said, for a visi b sign of immor-
tality. st. Cyl wrote: "God
knows mans nnbsief and provides the
phoenix as an EN- lem of the resurree-
tion." Clemnt sid this bird goes to
the land of Rypionce in five hundred
wears, not tohe esert, out TO notable
city to show ord the resurrection, that
as the Lord as killed and rose again,
so the phpE innolates itself in fire
of hemlocRougas, and from its ashes
comes a wq which straightway grows
into the biiof golden plnmage with a
purple bod The polished literature of
the Latinsom its birth until its i'm
mersion ihe fogs of the Dark Ages,
plows withe description of the phe-
nix as a atty. Pliny knew the bird
well. Tpopulace believed in it. The
grave Mus rose in the Senate to
mourn departure of a phoenix
which resided near his house
for fiy hundred years. Among
other AZ creatures which existed
in thelpular belief of the Lat
ms weihe flying pig, an enormous
hog WIN appetite that ravaged the
growifops of Clazomen@ and the
gritfinton with an eagles head and
Wingshis last was adopted some time
in thisty past by various civilized
governts as symbol of guardian
ship, p the fact that its first appear
: ance sble was as a guard before the
rich }mines of Arimaspi. The grif
fin wfovided with the powers attrib-
utedie harpy, roc, dragon and ogre,
and Jas mans deadly enemy and
fearf John Vaudeville (and it was
Sir !, by the way, who first caused
doul descend upon travellers tales)
. sawitfin fly into field and carry of
! vof oxen. The Romans firmly
:. bell iii the satyr. Pliny said they
. livd ndia; Albertius Magnus, that
4 thehabited the woods of SaXony;
9 an{writer, that. the home was in the
a Atpuntains, and another, that they
# webe found in what is now Little
: Ri There is no record that a satyr
- wsr seen alive; even those vera
= cihroniclers, Sir John Vaudeville
10 aErco Polo, never came across one.
a Thenians We're obliged to rest their
of dPlief on vague statements, and
n tlulptors to draw upon their won
at dimagination for the hairy man
CIV vgoat's legs.
.et origin of the tabled unicorn, that
~ Il supporter of the British crown
no anstitution, is easily accounted for
as fparison with the antelope. But
II gin of the once widespread belief
~ a monster as the mantichorus.
cb he body of lion, the tail and
~ bf a serpent, and the face of a
nv With three rows of teeth, is diff
tx find. Mans Imagination creates
on fairy or fawn, a hundred mon
Of Hence the catablepas, the bird!
cal whose look was death, the serpent
;ts head at each end of its body, the
res headed serpent, the gigantic tor
III the East and scores of others.
ion in some of these is not yet
Of hted from among the ignorant
fo- TRY of Eastern Europe. The
e a Id belief that there is variety of
lots which milks the COW is especially
gie ind widespread, being not un-
AMI in enlightened and educated
X IN
has sounded the myste-
easIepths of the ocean and brought
NOT terrible kraken or kraxen. There
ent pusands of Norwegian fishermen
Held, to whom this monster is no
nos They can tell its presence by
tha alter rising when it rises to the
hice IN warm weather Bishop Pom
ma an S kraken measured mile and
rite across its back, and its arms
seas long as the mast of man of!
on Though the fear it has inspired
its size, there is good
We 4 to believe that the kraken, which
| tIbtless the great cuttle-lish, grows
ii enormous size. In 1873 a cuttle-
laras washed ashore on the coast of
bepundland whose arms were esti4
to to measure nineteen feet in
,e 4. In other parts of the world
mems nearly as large have been
EN- In the light of such facts it is
. to read more seriously the stories
SOB cuttle-fishes which have en-
Fl large craft in their arms and
crh them below. In the great cuttle-
Wind the sea-serpent science we are
eaJ Jed to await developments before
lvAg them in the list of fabulous
d hls. But modern naturalists.
/ n according him respect for his
.ullng, regard as curious fancies only
pictures and descriptions
WE sea-horse, sea-lion, sea-deyil, and
Pw. In the age of the Cru
eas jewellers on the coast of the Med
e lnean believed in the zitiron, fish
its head and breast clad in steel
or. The Arabians had the zedrusus,
in so big that its bones. were sawed
Isplanks. The pretty fable of the
.iolaid and the siren is slow in dying.
chan fifty years ago the people OF
for miles around swarmed
ofttle seaport in the south of Eng
5 DIT rumor that a mermaid had
oaseen sitting on a rock combing its
WANT locks in the moonlight. The
:, tyr and the triton were familiar be-
anTith the ancients. About two hun
isyears ago one of the latter was al
sol to have been captured off the coast
oeitugal in the very act of blowing his
mel Barnacle geese was a curious
,adrong belief in the middle ages.
a PIN Vaudeville did not omit to
,uthat he had seen the diminutive
a lgs dropped from the shell of the
MI. Within comparatively short
;oT letter appeared in eh Englisl
a baper relating how barnacl,