 | Sabine Baring-Gould - Folklore - 1868 - 422 pages
...to their arms, and perish. The root of the myth is this : the piper is no other than the wind, and ancients held that in the wind were the souls of the dead. All over England the peasants believe still that the spirits of unbaptized children wander in it, and... | |
 | Sabine Baring-Gould - Folklore - 1873 - 688 pages
...to their arms, and perish. The root of the myth is this : the piper is no other than the wind, and ancients held that in the wind were the souls of the dead. All over England the peasants believe still that the spirits of unbaptized children wander in it, and... | |
 | John Fiske - Folklore - 1882 - 276 pages
...children came merrily running after him, their parents standing aghast, not knowing what to do, while he led them up a hill in the neighbourhood. A door opened...capacity he bears away the souls of the dead. So the Norse Odin, who like Hermes fulfils a double function, is supposed to rush at night over the tree-tops,... | |
 | Hélène Adeline Guerber - Legends - 1893 - 446 pages
...is in his capacity of god of the wind that he is supposed to waft away the souls of the dead ; for " the ancients held that in the wind were the souls of the dead." Mercury is the " lying, tricksome wind god who invented music," for his music is but " the melody of... | |
 | John Fiske - 1902 - 380 pages
...documents from this fearful calamity, and many authorities have treated it as an historical event.1 Similar stories are told of other towns in Germany,...fusion of two deities. He is the sun and also the wind ; 2 Hence perhaps the adage, " Always remember to pay the piper." and in the latter capacity he bears... | |
 | American essays - 1871 - 818 pages
...is the wind sighing through untold acres of pine forest " The piper is no other than the wind, and ancients held that in the wind were the souls of the...capacity he bears away the souls of the dead. So the Norse Odin, who like Hermes fulfils a double function, is supposed to rush at night over the tree-tops,... | |
 | American essays - 1871 - 856 pages
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Similar stories are told of other towns in Germany, and, strange to say, in remote Abyssinia also. "Wesleyan peasants in England believe that angels pipe to children who are about to die; and in Scandinavia, youths are said to have been enticed away by... 