Northern mythology

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8 NORTH GERMAN TRADITIONS.
our master." This so terrified him that he fell sick and
soon after died. The same horses drew him to the church
yard.
On the same ni^ht^ or on the eve of some other festival,
at twelve o^clock all water is turned into wine. A woman
was so foolhardy as to go one night to a well. While
bending over it for the purpose of drawing from it, there
came one and said,
All Water is Wyn, All water is wiue,
unn dyn beiden Ogen siiut myn ; and thy two eyes are mine
at the same time depriving her of both her eyes.
relate of another woman that it
All Water is Wyn,
unn wat dar by is myn,
and instantly the woman disappeared.
was said to her,
All water is wine,
and what thereby is mine,
Others
DIVINE SERVICE OF THE DEAD.
One night an old woman in Kiel awoke and thought it
was time to go to morning service ; for it seemed to ber
that she heard the bells and the organ. She rose accordingly,
took cloak and lantern—for it was winter—and
went to the church of St. Nicholas. But when there she
could not find the psalms, as the whole congregation sang
quite diff*erently from what stood in her psalm-book ;
the
people also appeared unknown to her, but among them
she perceived one woman who exactly resembled a neighbour
that had been dead for many years. A woman then approached
her, who had also been long in her grave ; it was
her gossip. This woman told her that she must go out
for the church at that time was not for her ; but that she
must not look round, else evil might befall her. The
woman went out as quickly as she could, and as the church
door was sla]nmcd after her, her cloak was caught. At tliis