TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL. IV

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1634 SUPEKSTITION.
the god or altar. Wend, vih-a faith, pHviera, psiviera superstition
[Russ. suye-verie]. With the Swed. vidske-pelse agrees
in part the OHG. unscaf superstitio, unscajithho superstitiose,
Graff 6, 453 ;
there are also impiderpi 6, 219 and uhirfenkida, Gl.
Sletst. 25, 327 both = superstitio; uharwintelingun superstitiose,
Mone's Anz. '35, 89. AS. ofertaele superstitiosus, Lye. Later
words : gelouheUn, Krolewitz 3753 ; swacher glouhe, iingeloube,
Er. 8122-39. We have also J^ohler-glaube, collier's faith, and in
the Quickborn honer-glohe. Superstitiones reHgionis rubigines,
Garg. 187''. Ou superstition, see Nilsson 6, 3. Hes. 0pp. 705
826.
p. 1105 n,] Klemm 3, 201-3 divides magic into explorative
and active. A foretoken, presage, is in Lat. portentum from
portendo, osteiitiim from ostendo, 7nonstrum from monstro
[moneo?], Cic. Div. 1, 42 and Forcellini ;
prodigia coelestia,
prope quotidianas in urbe agrisque ostentantia minas, Livy 2, 42.
OH.G. fora-ponchan, fore-hea.cou, fora-zeichan, foretoken; Mzeichen,
Windb. Ps. 323. 367. Signs appear before the Judgment-day,
bef. a death, a dearth, a war. To curse all signs, Hebel 332.
p. 1107.] OHG. drewa oraculum, droa fulmen, Graff 5, 246.
AS. hwdt omen, divinatio, also hwdtung, OHG. hvdz (p. 951),
conf. hwdtend iris (p. 1216 n.) ;
fugel-hv;dte divinatio per aves.
AS. hwetton hige, hael scedwedon (on the voyage), Beow. 407;
OHG. heil-scowunge augurium, Graff 6, 556 ; hel-scouwinge, Partonop.
20, 13 ; heilge scowede augurium, Sumerl. 2, 41 ; helscowinge,
Bilderdyk's Yerscheidenh. 3, 143. Frauenl. p. 142
uses hilnden for prognosticate. Again luesen, choose = look out
for (in ref. to weather, Gramm. 4, 848), conf Swed. tjusa (p.
1037). Children esp. are used in divination and casting lots;
conf. pitre ddldren, Superst. H, cap. 55-6-7. 83.
p. 1107.] A remarkable method of acquiring the gift of divination
occurs in the Swed. drs-gdng, Hpt's Ztschr. 4, 508 seq.
Both that and the power of healing are passed on from women to
men, from men to women, conf. Firmen. 1, 318. Sommer's Sagen
p. 171. As in Superst. I, 996, so in Miillenh. 399 the gift of
spirit-seeing is transferred by treading on the left foot and
looking over the rigid shoulder. Prevision is the faculty of
presentiment intensified to actual seeing and hearing :
Siforeseer,
t'orepeeper beholds funerals, armies in march, battles, also unim-