Oct. 29. 1853.] 



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same day as All Souls Day, i. e. Nov. 2) point out 

 that the Morrow of St. Michael is the 29th, i. e. 

 Michaelmas Day. That morrow was anciently 

 equivalent to morning, we may infer from the fol- 

 lowing passages : 



" Upon a morrow tide." — Gower, Conf, Am,, b. ili, 



" Tho' when appeared the third morrow bright, 

 UiJon the waves," &c. 



Spenser's Fairy Queen, ii. xii. 2. 

 " Good morrow." — Fassim. 



E. H. 



[Is not our correspondent confounding the morrow 

 -of All Sai7its, which the 2nd of November certainly is, 

 with the morrow of All Souls 9 Sir H. Nicolas, in his 

 most useful Chronology of History, says most distinctly: 

 — " The morrow of a feast is the day following. Thus, 

 the feast of St. Peter ad Vincula is the 1st of August, 

 and the morrow of that feast is consequently the 2nd of 

 August." — P. 99.] 



Hotchpot. — Will you kindly tell me what is the 

 derivation of the legal terra hotchpot, and when it 

 •was first used ? M. G. B. 



[The origin of this phrase is Involved in some ob- 

 scurity. Jacob, in his Law Dictionary, speaks of it as 

 " from the French," and his definition is verbatim that 

 given in The Termes of the Law (ed. 1598), with a very 

 slight addition. Blackstone (book ii. cap. 12.) says, 

 " which term I shall explain in the very words of Lit- 

 tleton : ' It seemeth that this word hotchpot is in En- 

 glish a pudding ; for in a pudding is not commonly 

 just one thing alone, but one thing with other things 

 together.' By this housewifely metaphor our ancestors 

 meant to inform us that the lands, both those given 

 in frankmarriage, and those descending in fee-simple, 

 should be mixed and blended together, and then di- 

 vided in equal portions among all the daughters."] 



High and Low Dutch. — Is there any essential 

 difference between High and Low Dutch; and if 

 there be any, to which set do the Dutchmen at 

 the Cape of Good Hope belong ? S. C. P. 



[High and Low Dutch are vulgarisms to express 

 the German and the Dutch languages, which those 

 nations themselves call, for the German Deutsch, for 

 the Dutch HolVdndisch. The latter is the language 

 which the Dutch colonists of the Cape carried with 

 them, when that colony was conquered by them from 

 the Portuguese ; and has for its base the German as 

 ^spoken before Martin Luther's translation of the Bible 

 Tnade the dialect of Upper Saxony the written lan- 

 guage of the entire German empire.] 



^ " A Wilderness of Monkeys.''' — Would you 



kindly inform me where the expi-ession is to be 



found : " I would not do such or such a thing for 



^ wilderness of monkeys ? " C. A. 



Ripley. 



[" Tubal. One of them showed me a ring that he 

 ■ had of your daughter for a monkey. 



^' Shylock. Out upon her ! Thou torturest me. 



Tubal : it was my turquoise ; I had it of Loah, when 

 I was a bachelor : I would not have given it for a 

 wilderness of monkies." — Merchant of Venice, Act III. 

 Sc. 1.] 



Splitting Paper. — Could any of your readers 

 give the receipt for splitting paper, say a bank- 

 note ? In no book can I find it, but I believe 

 that it is known by many. H. C. 



Liverpool. 



[Paste the paper which is to be split between two 

 pieces of calico ; and, when thoroughly dry, tear them 

 asunder. The paper will split, and, when the calico is 

 wetted, is easily removed from it.] 



The Devil on Two Sticks in England. — Who is 

 the author of a work, entitled as under ? 



" The Devil upon Two Sticks in England ; being a 

 Continuation of Le Diable Boiteux of Le Sage. 

 London : printed at the Logographic Press, and sold 

 by T. Walter, No. 169. Piccadilly ; and W. Richard- 

 son, under the Royal Exchange, 1790." 



It is a *-ork of very considerable merit; an 

 imitation in style and manner of Le Sage, but 

 original in its matter. It is published in six 

 volumes 8vo. William Newman. 



[William Coombe, Esq., the memorable author of 

 The Diaboliad, and The Tour of Dr. Syntax in Search 

 of the Picturesque.'^ 



STONE PILLAR WORSHIP ANB IDOL WORSHIP. 



(Vol. v., p. 121.; Vol vil., p. 383.) 



Stone Pillar Worship. — Sir J. E. Tennent in- 

 quires whether any traces of this worship are to be 

 found in Ireland, and refers to a letter from a corre- 

 spondent of Lord Roden's, which states that the 

 peasantry of the island of Innlskea, off the coast of 

 Mayo, hold in reverence a stone idol called iVeewoM^z. 

 This word I cannot find in my Irish dictionary, 

 but it is evidently a diminutive, formed from the 

 word Eevan (-^orrjAjt), image, or idol : and it is 

 remarkable that the scriptural Hebrew term for 

 idol is identical with the Irish, or nearly so — 

 |1NI (^Eevan), derived from a root signifying nega- 

 tion, and applied to the vanity of idols, and to the 

 idols themselves. 



I saw at Kenmare, in the county of Kerry, in 

 the summer of 1847, a water-worn fragment of 

 clay slate, bearing a rude likeness to the human 

 form, which the peasantry called Eevan. Its ori- 

 ginal location was in or near the old graveyard of 

 Kilmakillogue, and it was regarded with reverence 

 as the image of some saint in " the ould auncient 

 times," as an " ould auncient " native of Tuosisfc 

 (the lonely place) informed me. In the same im- 

 mediate neighbourhood is a gullaune (t^aU^h), or 

 stone pillar, at which the peasantry used " to give 



