Northern mythology

APPENDIX. 233
In the manuscript this catalogue is preceded by the formula
of renunciation already given.
From the popular traditions and tales of Germany a
sufficiently clear idea of the nature of the giants and dwarfs
of Teutonic fiction may be obtained. As in the Northern
belief the giants inhabit the mountains, so does German
tradition assign them dwellings in mountains and caverns.
Isolated mounts, sand-hills or islands have been formed by
the heaps of earth which giant-maidens have let fall out
of their aprons when constructing a dam or
IV. De Casulis, id est Fanis.
V. De Sacrilegiis per Ecclesias.
VI. De Sacris Silvarum, quae Nimidas vocant.
VII. De his quae faciunt super petras.
VIII. De Sacris Mercurii vel Jovis {Wodan or Thor).
IX. De Sacrificio quod fit aliciii Sanctorum.
X. De Phylacteriis et Ligaturis.
XI. De Fontibus Sacrificiorum.
XII. De Incantationibus.
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XIII. De Auguriis vel avium vel equorum, vel bovum stercore, vel
sternutatione.
XIV. De Di\inis vel Sortilegis.
XV. De Igne fricato de ligno, id est nodfyr.
XVI. De Cerebro Animaliura.
XVII, De Observatione pagana in foco vel in inchoatione rei alicujus.
XVIII. De Incertis Locis, quae colunt pro Sacris.
XIX. De Petendo quod boni vocant Sanctae Marise.
XX. De Feriis, quae faciunt Jovi vel Mercurio.
XXI. De Lunae defectione, quod dicunt Vinceluna.
XXII. De Tempestatibus et Cornibus et Cocleis.
XXIII. De Sulcis circa Villas.
XXIV. De Pagano Cursu, quem Frias {Yrias, Grimm) nominant, scissis
pannis vel calceis.
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XXV. De eo quod sibi sanctos fingunt quoslibet mortuos.
XXVI. De Simulacro de consparsa farina.
XXVII. De Simulacris de panuis factis.
XXVIII. De Simulacro quod per campos portant.
XXIX. De Ligneis Pedibus vel Manibus pagano ritu.
XXX. De eo quod credunt, quia Feminae lunam commendent, quod
possint corda hominum toUere juxta paganos.
1 See vol. iii. p. 87.