1825.] Danish Traditions 
died, 56,054; and 98,259 births. The in- 
crease of births, in that year, was 42,198. 
Computing the year 1824 at this rate, the 
increase for the last fifteen years has 
amounted to 350,000, or 23,333 a. year. 
In 1779, nearly 15,000 died of the small- 
pox ; and throughout the whole of Sweden, 
in 1822, the number of deaths, in conse- 
quence of vaccination, amounted to eleven.” 
UNITED, STATES- 
“ The Population of the City of New 
York is calculated: to be 140,000. Last 
year, the mortality was, 4,341, viz. 1,244 
males, and 887 females; 1,204 male, chil- 
dren, and 1,006 femaies: 394 of these died 
of the smail-pox ; and 736 of consump- 
tions.” 
“ Watertown.—The inhabitants of Wa- 
tertown were- thrown into the greatest 
anxiety last November, in consequence of 
the appearance of the small-pox. To pre- 
vent the disease spreading, Dr. S. Fancher 
vaccinated all who had not had the small- 
pox: this had the desired effect. To proye, 
more completely, the power of vaccination, 
Dr. F. inoculated. twenty-two persons 
who had. before been vaccinated, with the 
most virulent smail-pox matter that could 
be procured, and not one of them took the 
disease.” 
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For the Monthly Magazine. 
Dantsu TRADITIONS and SUPERSTITIONS. 
[Continued from No. 410, p. 411.) 
The Stone-mason. 
N the lordship of Ullerup, in Jutland, 
lived'a certain Sir Jens Bugge, who 
caused a house to be built, where Vos- 
borvig projects into the Northern Ocean. 
It is said, that when he had paid the 
master stone-mason for his work, and 
the man had departed, and had got 
about half a mile on his way, the knight 
caused four horses to be saddled in the 
utmost haste, and commanded his ser- 
vants to ride after the man, and tell 
him that the house was fallen down: 
whien, provided he looked back to see if 
it was, they were to make him their 
prisoner, and. return with him; but if 
he did not, they were to let him con- 
tinue his way. ‘The servants did as 
they were ordered—they overtook. the 
stone-mason, and told him, with much 
seeming. anger, that he had not. per- 
formed, his .work in a proper. manner, 
for that the house was fallen already. 
The man,-however, remained perfectly 
unmoved :: he did not look back; and 
only replied, “ Tell: Sir Jens Bugge, 
your master, that his house, and my 
work, will remain ‘standing till the 
that this is an error of the press. . The re- 
petition of a figure, is the error most easy 
and probable, and we have corrected con- 
jJecturally accordingly. 
507 
Northwest-men* come and pay it a 
visit.” 
and Superstitions. 
The Erl Maiden. 
At East Hessing, in the district of 
Calling, there: was once a rural wed- 
ding; and when the morning was near 
at hand, the guests rushed out of the 
house with much noise and tumult. 
When they were putting their horses 
to the carts, in order to leave the place, 
each of them boasted and bragged of 
his bridal present. But when the ups 
roar was at the highest, and they were 
all speaking together, a maiden, dressed - 
in green, and with a bulrush plaited 
over her head, came from the neigh- 
bouring morass, and going up to the 
fellow who was noisiest, and bragged 
most of his bridal gift, she said, “ What 
will you give to Lady Be?” The 
boor, who was half intoxicated from 
the brandy and ale he had swallowed, 
seized a whip, and answered, “ ‘Three 
strokes of my waggon-whip.” But at 
the same moment he fell a corpse to 
the ground. 
Holger the Dane. 
At various times, a terrible noise of 
weapons had “been heard»under the 
castle of Krenberg:’ None ‘knew how 
to account for it, and in’ thé whole land 
there was no one who dared to venture 
down through the subterranean vaults. 
At last a slave, who had forfeited his 
life, was promised.a full pardon and his 
liberty, provided, he would descend as 
far.as. the passage,went,,. and bring up 
intelligence of what was going on: below. 
He accepted the condition, and: wan- 
dered under ground, till he cameto a 
strong iron door, which opened:of itself 
when he tapped against it; he then 
entered a vast cavern. Down from the 
ceiling, in the midst, there hung an 
almost extinguished lamp, and beneath 
it stood an enormous stone table, round 
which there sat steel-clad warriors, rest- 
ing their/heads on, their, crossed , arms. 
Then he who. sat at:\the head: of the 
board. raised himself up—it was Hol- 
ger the Dane: but; when® he lifted his 
head from his arms, the stone table 
burst to’ pieces, for his'beard had grown 
down through it.. “ Give me your 
hand,” he shouted to the slave ; but, 
as he was afraid to offer his band,, he 
held out an iron bar, which he, carried 
with him... Holgar grasped. it so,power- 
fully, that the marks. of, his fingers;were 
visible init... Then suddenly releasing 
it, he exclaimed, “By, Huel, it rejoiceth 
me to find that there is still a man in 
Denmark.” 
* Famous pirates. 
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