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diction , in sacrifice , consecration , and miracles . ( Mark v . 23 , yi . 5 , vii . 33 , via . 23 ; Luke iv . 40 , &c . ) In raising . the dead , &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 r iver , which is Hiddekel ; then I lifted up mine eyes , and looked , and behold a certain man clothed ia 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 thetn , 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 I heard the voice of his -words , then was 1 in a deep sleep on my face , and my 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 ii ) when all the astro - logers , ma ^ cians , and Chaldseans , could not explain the king ' s dream— " Then Daniel went in , and desired of the 3 ring that lie would g ive him time , and that he would show the Icing the interpretation . Then Daniel went to his house , and made the thing known to Hananiah , MIshael , and Azariah , Iris companions , that they would desire mercies of the God of Heaven inis secretmat uamci nis reJiownouia not
• concerning , ana s s pensn witn 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 hand laid upon the prophets means ten hands ^ making Daniel and his fellows wiser than the wise men of Babylon . When we find " the hand of the Lord was with him , " it signifies the counsel and aid of < God , to speak truth and do good . In chapter i . v . 66 , of Luke , we find of Zacharias that - '• the liand of the Lord was with Ixim ; " and of the Apostles , that " the hand of the Lord was with them , and they did signs and miracles . " In these passages , therefore , the hand is spoken of metaphorically as producing prophetic inspiration , and working miracles . The Apostles laid their hands on those who believed , and they- received the Holy Ghost . We see here the same proceedings as in magnetism , —the same attributes of the liand , the same Functions , the same results ; but with the difference between the divine power and will and that of man . The laying on of hands is not absolutely necessary in magnetism ; a finger suffices , or in some cases contact is unnecessary : in perfect communication the Avill is sufficient , without using the hand as a conducting medium . In the Bible we also find the linger of God often used metaphorically : miracles and sisms -were ty the finder of God .
^ We have already alluded to Ennemoser ' s first volume as containin g 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 Auimal Magnetism . As an historian , ¦ the author shows no tendency to get clearer and more comprehensible as he approaches modern times . He is as dreamy , indefinite , and involved among the mystics-of the " Middle Ages as he-vya 3 among the sorcerers of ancient Egypt . If we aaee 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 5 n by . thousands and thousands of the human race : —
ST 3 IPATHETIC SUPERSTITIOUS . " Wlien women boil yarn , they must tell a lie at the same time , otherwise it will not get » « vlnte . . . •¦ . ' ¦ Parents must not buy their eliildren any rattles , nor allow any to be given them , or they will be slow at learning , and will speak with difficulty . . ¦ ¦ . When you take straw for a 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 ' you want hen chickens . No one must on any account weigh an empty cradle , or he will weigh the child ' s rest away . The nails on tho hands of an infant must be bitten off by the mother the first time , or it will learn to steal . If you wish a child to become a hundred years old , you must get 5 t godfathers out of three different parislies .
If you 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 tho church in silence , and blow each itimc into the mouth of her child , and it will get its teeth easy . Lot the father immediately after the christening give the child a sword in its hand , and it -will become bravo . Blue cornflowers gathered on Corpus-Christi Sunday stop the bleeding of the nose if they are held in the hand till they are warm . A woman can cure her ear-aohe by binding a man's stocking round hey head . Elder planted before the stable-door preserves tho cattle from -witchcraft . Ho who carries about him a cord with which a rupture doctor has bound up a rupture , may lift tho heaviest ¦ weieht without anv danerer .
Apiece of wood out of a coffin that bus been dug up , when laid in a cabbage bed . defends it from caterpillars . One should not lean over a cradle whoro a child is sleeping , nor should it bo left standing ¦ open . S " > Mnters from an oak split by lightning care tooth-ache , o who will bow seed , let him bo careful not to lay it on a table , otherwise it will not . grow . He who has tlie hiccup , lot him plunge a naked knifo into a can of bcor , and tako a good drnugh L of it at ono breath . He who cannot sleep , bo it a child or adult , let him lay a composing whisp under hid flpillow ; that is , straw which workwomen put under tho burdona on their backs ; but it must < petaken fromtho people unknown to them . In brewing , lay » bunch of nettles in tho barrel-, it ia then safe against thunder . A . wife who has a cold must Bneozo into her husband ' s shoe .
It 13 not good to strike a- benst with a switch which has been used to correct a child . Chastise neither man nor boast with a peeled stick , for whatovev is beaten with it will dry up . Whan you place your shooa reversed at tho head of your bod , the nightmare cannot opiprosa you , r Old women often cut a turf of a foot long which their enemy has lutely trodden on , and fliang it up m tho ohimney , ftnd their enemy must wither < iw « y . Let any one who has groat anxiety touch tho groat too of a doad person , and lie will at 'Onoo bucomo freo from ifo If any one die * in the , house , you must shake the boo-liivos , and tho wino and vinotrnr , or the beea , tho wine nnd tho vinegar , will all go off or spoil . Tho first medioino which a lying-in woman takoa , should bo out of her huaband ' a spoon iit will then bo more efficacious .
During tho pmns of child-birth , it dooa good to turn the slippers of the hueband round . Throe grains of Halt in a measure of mule preserves it from withcraft . No ono must tuate the first warm bcor which ia given to a lying-in woman ; it muat bo trlod with tho finger , otherwise tho woman will bo attacked with colic . If a child ho » tho rod-fium , tako a pioco of wood from a mill-wheel , burn it , and amoko tlio child's Bwnddling-olothoB thorowith ; thon wash tho child with water that flowa from tho wheel . The wood that remains must bo oast into running water . You should no"vor wean a olrild while trees are in blossom ; otherwise it will Imvc croy bale . Tlnrco buttons bound togotlior with a thread , and laid In a , oofnn , will freo from warts . IS any ono h » a received n bodily hurt . wasIi liim with brook-wntor whilo tho bell ia tollina Cor aiunoraL a
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THE BALTIC , TIIE BLA . CK SEA , AND THE CRIMEA The Baltic , the Black Sea , and tlie 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 Astrachan 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 tlie morning of the 4 th of- August , to the Sparrow Hills , near Moscow . There stands tlie gloomy prison , the temporal' ) ' asylum of those condemned to Siberian banishment . Being armed with a kind of introduction to Dr . Haase , the governor , we soon made his acquaintance . " We must liere pause to say a few words of this extraordinary man . A German by birth , he had followed successfully the medical profession in . Russia , and had 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 , and supplied , their wants . Gradually his visits became more frequent , and after a time , whenever a fresh convoy was to leave , the 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 the final arrangements for their departure . The name of this excellent man had become known to the 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 jack-in-ofHce more jealous than he of Russia ) in any other man as impertinent interference , was overlooked in him ; and now for many years he has been recognised by tlve Emperor 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 iu the execution of its own divine impulses , than any amount of 'filthy 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 accomplishment . They had attended divine service , and mow ranged in a row , awaited only the usual final questions and adieus . There were in all about forty men and women ; each of the former haying 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 . In addition to the exiles , there wero several women and children , the latter of
all ages under four years , the youngest being but a few weeks old ; these were the wives and children of some of the men , accompanying them in their banishment . The Hussion law permitting , but not forcing , the women to follow their husbands , and take with them all their children under the age we have mentioned above , the marriage being dissolved ia the event of the wives objecting to go . " One poor creature , full of grief , petitioned Di \ Haase to liaye her eldest child of three years sent after her by tho next convoy , as , from some informality , it had been left behind ; und this request was immediately granted , though she had already two younger ones with her . JEach individual in succession having boon 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 the charitable for distribution , given him , and then they started , the men chained together in pairs , but tlie women being free . Carts were provided for tho wives and children , and any who might fall sick on tho road , and as far as luy in . tho power of Dr . Haase , the comforts of tho whole were attended to , and ho personally examined the miuutuc of the arrangements .
" These prisoners mnreh about fifteen or twenty miles a day , and havo occasional resting days ; tho hardships of their journey having boon greatly mitigated by the benevolent exertions of this good man , pors ' everingly exercised through a long sorios of years ; but as they recede from the contre of power , their suffering are said to increase , and their numbers arc considerably diminished before they reach their destination . " The greatest joy of the life of Dr . Haaso , ia to watch the process of knocking tho shackles from tho legs of tho nowly-arrived prisoners , thereby permitting thoir week's sojourn in Moscow , which is the central UepOt for twenty-two department : * , to bo really a time of rest . To see tliis , wo accompanied him , after wo had , watched the sad procoiMun which had juat parted , for some littlo distance on ita road . " In a long low room we found about twenty men , who had come tho day before from the provinces . A movement took placo on our entering , and tho rattling chaina grated harshly on tho ear . A passing shade of pleasure lighted up tho countenances of most , as Dr . XI laao P 8 sed amongat them , but was soon succeeded by a Btnto of passive resignation , I ho blacksmith wus in readiness with h \» tools , and ono by one tlio strong rivets flow from the shackles . I wish my powers permitted mo to describe tho expression of that kind mitn s fuco as ho sat , the typo of" the true philanthropist : tlioro was something more than pleasure ; thoro was roliirion in avow linoninonfc : liis eves wero liuhtcd hy n holy ( ire , and
around his lips played a smilo of benevolent joy , such aa I hail never seen before . " Mo now mingled with these prisoners , and uddrossed words of aiTooiion ana kindness to each : tho oyea of ono becumo full of tears—toars , too , bearing all tho evidences of deep und genuine fueling . Wo f ' olt interested in thin man , ami mauirud tho nature of his oriino ( to our surpi'isei wo found ho was nothing Iush tlmn a murderer . Horo , thon , was u buin ^ whoso hands wore died in tlio YitVa blood of hi » follow , yot whoso heart was multed liko mi »»»»* » by a low words of kindly aympnthy . Who knows what that man might have booomo hml Us better feelings boon om-lfur fostered and encouraged ? Perhaps Hint short Hetituiico liuJ been almost tho iivat over addrcfl . iod to him in tonc-n IVoo from Wflhnosa or cruelly . A group attracted our attention ; it consisted of throe young Ooasack brothera ; "M . llli boon condemned soino montha before , but , having disease of tho heart ., hud not Inx-n lorwnrdod to Siberia . Ho now implored Dr . Hint ho to permit him to u , coomj > mny the other two , who had just arrived , and his winli was gratlllod . " Wo wont over tho prison , consisting of a largo quadrangle of ono wlory , having tlio wiijuows townnta tho court . Tlio rooms woro llttod up with" bouchoa of wood , w wlucli Um prisoners slept without mutlreaaos j but tulaltt no ljurdab . ii > to them , for , us wo stated beluic , tho ituHMun peasant linowa no such luxury an a bod . Dr . Haaso informed us , however , tuui oxiloa from tlio higher clussoa wore provided wit . li them . " In a small room apart woro two remarkably handsome-looking man . Tliey woro Urn chlolu of a border tribo submitted to Russia , but some suspicion of infidelity lmviPg & llJlt
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With this extract we close a book which led us to expect much from it and ivhich 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 . Bonn , who has 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 .
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* 906 THE LEADER . [ Saturday ,
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 23, 1854, page 906, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2057/page/18/
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