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240 NOTES TO THE DEVOTED ONE.
accosted by a gipsy, who offered to predict the fate of every
one present. Poniatowski held out his hand to the sybil, who
took it, and, examining it with a scrutinizing glance, said in a
hollow voice, "Prince, an Elster will be thy death!" Now
Elster, in German, means a magpie. The prediction, therefore,
elicited a burst of merriment from the whole party, who little
dreamt, at the time, how truly this gipsy prophecy would be
one day realized. The gallant Pole sunk with his steed, and
hundreds of the flying French, in the waters of the Elster."
Month. Mag.
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Art thou the brother of a Duke? ... p. 129.
Godwin, the father of Harold, the last of the Anglo-Saxon
kings, was brought up a herdsman. Mr. Sharon Turner, from
the Knytlinga, gives the story nearly similar to what may be
found in the text. The Danish chieftain whom he preserved,
in gratitude gave him "
his sister in marriage. Godwin," says
the above author, "possessed a power little less than sovereign
for three reigns. That he was the son of a herdsman, is a fact
recorded in the MS. Chronicle of Radulphus Niger." That
Wulfnoth, the father of Godwin, was at one period a chieftain,
is stated by the above authority, for he is called Childe of
Sussex. The infamous Edric seems to have been his uncle,
but we have made him to be his brother.
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The mystic name ....
Is on my forehead, and it must not be
Effaced till Death's pale hand shall wash it thence, p. 138.
"This word was O.M., or A. U. M. in its triliteral form, (vide
Asiat. Res. v. i., p. 285.) It represented the creative, the pre-
serving, and destroying power of the Omnipotent, personified
in Brahma, Vishnu, and Siva." Wilkins Bhagvat Geeta.
"All the rites ordained in the Vedas, the sacrifices to the fire,
and all other solemn purifications,
shall pass away ; but that
which shall never pass away is the word O. M., for it is the
symbol of the Lord of all things." Abbe Du Bois.
"An intelligent Brahmin, who had come from Hydrabad,
informed me that the temple of Visvacarma was dedicated to
the Supreme Being and, on pronouncing the mystical triliteral
word of A.U. M. in silence, he made three low reverences, with
a cloth over his mouth. I afterwards showed these mystical
characters to him, and he admitted they were the sacred syllable
he had used, but on no account would he repeat them aloud.
Each letter mystically signifies the Creator, Preserver, and
Destroyer."
Wonders of Flora.