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dere mille Numiua, quae variis horrent portenta fiijurls. On the
other hand, Gregory of Tours's account (1, 34) of the Alamann
king Chrocus in the 3rd century compelling St. Privatus in Gaul
to sacrifice to idols, is vaguely worded: Daemoniis imniolare compellitur,
quod spurcum ille tam exsecrans quam refutans ; on
Chrocus conf. Stalin 1, 118.
p. 108 n.] Old idols in churches were placed behind the
organ (Melissantes orogr, p. 437— 9) in Duval's Eichsfeld 341,
'An idols' chamber was in the old choir/ Leipz. avant. 1, 89—91
'the angels out of the firewood room/ Weinhold's Schles. wtb.
17'^; fires lighted with idols, conf, Suppl. top. 13— 15. Giants''
ribs or hammers hung outside the church-gate, p. 555 n.; urns
and inverted pots built into church-walls, Thilr. mitth. i. 2,
112—5. Steph. Stoflief, p. 189, 190, A heathen stone with the
hoof-mark is let into Gudensberg churchyard wall, p. 938.
p. 113.] The warming (baka), anointing and drying of gods'
images is told in FriS);iofs-s. cap. 9 (p. 63). But the divine
snake of the Lombards was of gold, and was made into a plate
and chalice (p, 684), The statua ad humanos tactus vocaUs, Saxo
p. 42, reminds of Memuon's statue. Some trace of a Donar's
image may be seen in the brazen dorper, p. 535. On the armrings
in gods' images conf. the note in Miiller's Saxo p. 42, Even
H. Sachs 1, 224'^' says of a yellow ringlet
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: du nahmst es Gott
von fiissen 'rab,' off God's feet; and ii. 4, 6^: ihr thet es Got von
fiissen uemmen. Four-headed figures, adorned with half-moons,
in Jaumann's Sumlocenne p. 192—4, On nimbi, rays about the
head, conf. p. 323 and Festus : capita deorum appellabantur fasciculi
facti ex verbenis.
Animals were carved on such figures, as
on helmets ; and when Alb. of Halberstadt 456^ transl. Ovid's
'Ilia mihi niveo factum de marmore signum Ostendit juvenile,
gerens in vert ice picum,' Met. 14, 318, by ' truoc einen speht ilf
fiiner ahseln,' he probably had floating in his mind Wodan with
the raven on his shoulder. Even in Fragm. 40"^ we still find :
swuor bi alien gotes-bilden.
p. 114 n.] Gods' images are instinct with divine life, and can
move. Many examples of figurea turnituj round in Botticher's
Hell. Temp. p. 126. One such in Athenaeus 4, 439; one that
turns its face, Dio Cass. 79, 10: sacra retorseruut oculos, Ov.
Met. 10, 696; one that walks, Dio Cass. 48, 43.
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