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hideous old man entered with beaming eyes. On beholding him the 

 girl sprang up, and said: "Titteli Ture, Titteli Ture, here are thy 

 gloves." When the dwarf heard his name pronounced, he was 

 overcome with passion, and bursting through the roof of the apart- 

 ment, hastened away through the air. The maiden was espoused 

 by the king's son the following day, and nothing more was ever 

 seen of Titteli Ture. 



STRAWBERRY. — Strawberries were reputed to be the 

 favourite fruit of the goddess Frigg, who presided over marriages. 

 In German legends, Strawberries symbolise little children who 

 have died when young. According to one of these legends, before 

 St. John's Day mothers who have lost their little ones take care 

 not to eat Strawberries, because they think that young children 

 ascend to heaven concealed in Strawberries. Mothers who eat 

 Strawberries are considered to have wronged the Virgin Mary, to 

 whom the Strawberry is dedicated, and who would assuredly re- 

 fuse an entry into heaven to those children whose mothers had 

 defrauded her of the fruit specially set apart for her. A repre- 

 sentation of the leaf of the Strawberry is set in the gold coronets 

 worn by certain of the English nobility : a duke's coronet has eight 

 leaves, an earl's eight, and that of a marquis four. Strawberry- 

 leaves and the Flower-de-luce are used in the coronets of the 

 younger members of the royal family. Don John, son of King 

 John I. of Portugal, adopted the Strawberry as his device, to show 

 his devotion to St. John the Baptist, who lived on fruits. It is 

 mentioned by HoUinshed, and the facft has been dramatised by 

 Shakspeare, that Glo'ster, when he was contemplating the death of 

 Hastings, asked the Bishop of Ely for Strawberries. 



" My lord of Ely, when I was last in Holborn, 

 I saw good Strawberries in your garden there." 



Linnaeus was cured of frequent attacks of gout by the use of Straw- 

 berries, and the fruit is accounted an excellent remedy in putrid 



fevers. To dream of Strawberries is reputed to be a good omen : 



to a youth they are supposed to denote that " his wife will be 



sweet tempered, and bear him many children, all boys." A 



legend of the Fichtelgebirge (a mountain range at the juncftion of 

 Saxony, Bavaria, and Bohemia) records that one Midsummer Day 

 a woman went with her child to look for Strawberries in a wood. 

 She chanced to light upon some plants, which when plucked in the 

 night, were not to be exhausted ; and after awhile she perceived a 

 cavern which she entered with her child. Here, to her astonish- 

 ment, lay heaps of gold scattered about ; and three white maidens 

 gave her permission to take as much of the treasure as she 

 could colledt with one grasp. Her greed, however, induced her to 

 make three swoops, and then, fearful of the consequences, and for- 

 getting her child, she rushed out of the hollow, when the entrance 

 was immediately closed upon her, and a warning voice informed 



