354: Proceeding* of the Royal Irish Academy. 



till first cockcrow she sits on oaks and hazel trees, the rest of her time she 

 floats through the empty air. She was inflamed by love for John, which he 

 did not return ; when his head was brought in on a charger, she would fain 

 have covered it with tears aud kisses, but it draws back and begins to blow 

 hard at her ; the hapless maid is whirled into empty space, and there she 

 hangs for ever." 



As Grimm righ:. '.ins reference to the turbo or whirlwind "looks 



mythical and of high antiquity." Further it is quite clear that lie is correct 

 in - a Christian my thus [sir] of Herodias got mixed up with our 



native heathen fables. Hei ias therefore, who is connected thus with the 

 Baptist and with a whirlwind, stands in the place of a Teutonic wind- 

 divinity. Grimm shows by a number of pasE a ■ for which reference may be 

 _:iial work, that in Teutonic mytholog] Berodias, borrowed 

 is identical witli Diana i from classical lore, 



and again with Holda, Fran Holda, or Pharaildis, the native Teutonic 

 sky- and fertility . --. Though Holda rule a benign being, pre- 



human industry, yet she 

 rides with witches and is nut unconnected with Btorma and whirlwinds 



But we may perhaps venture •> step farther. Grimm (op. dt. i. '- 



iting tn a certain />-'im 

 11 1 imestic deity who increased the riches of 



Of this lady tin- Roman eU la J 



- . — 



/ - // ■ It — 

 being whose place B :.a.- usurped 



■ility, whi iated 



with whirls s - I>.iy. May we see this name buried in the 



iggest tha 1" is the guess of some 



hist i _ i word to him incomprehensible. 



• him. in thi lar which he was Bl a was 



mething lik- irruption (or 



_ - A At least, 



ts a first att' explaining something that has never 



tnmarized as briel 



y the men of Ireland on the feast 

 the deal; ■, Leboi 



