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84 GUALTERI MAPES [Distinc. II.
inferius ; hie ad queestiones ejus mugitum pro verbis eclidit, manuque
doctrinam vise fecit. Post hunc se sibi ultroneum obtulit aliud
quoddam pedibus caprinis, ventre hispido, nebridem habens pec-
tore stellis stellatam, facie ardenti, mento barbato, cornibus
erectis ; hujusmodi autem Pana dicunt antiqui, pan autem inter-
pretatur omne, unde totius in se mundi formam habere dicitur.
Hie verbis discretis viam docuit, quaesitusque quis esset, respondit
se angelorum unum qui ejecti cum Lucifero dispersi sunt per orbem
singuU secundum merita superbise suae.*
Item de eisdem appariiionibus. xvi.
Nunquid non et hoc fantasma est. Apud Lovanum in marchia
Lotharingarum et Flandrise, in loco qui Lata-Q,uercus dicitur, ad-
venerant ut adhuc solent multa mihtum miha ut more suo armati
colluderent, quern ludum torniamentum vocant, qui rectius tormentum
dicitur.f Insidebat autem miles quidara ante congressum
equo maximo ; erat autem ipse pulchra statura, aliquanto medio-
* It was a common article of the popular evil in feudal times, not only from the ac-
belief that a portion of the fallen angels cidents and disturbances which frequently
wander in the air and earth and water, attended them, but from the extensive
and that they appeared to mankind in the feuds which arose out of them. Frequent
shape of fairies, hobgoblins, &c. Giraldus attempts were made to suppress and dis-
Cambrensis, Itin. Camb. lib. i.e. 12, gives courage them, both by the crown and by
a curious story illustrative of this notion, the church, and Mapes here only speaks the
It was as old as the Anglo-Saxon age, and opinion of the wisest of his contemporaries,
occurs in the dialogue between Saturn and One article of the Decrees of Pope Alex-
Solomon (Thorpe's Analecta, p. .98.) " Saga ander III. published in 1179 ran as follows :
me hwider ge-witon J>a engelas ]?e Gode " Felicis memorise papte Innocentii et Eu-
wii^'socon on heofona rice? Ic j'e secge, genii prsedecessorumnostroruminhserentes,
hyg to-dseldon 6n bri dselas : iinne dsel he detestabiles nundinas vel ferias, quas vulgo
asette on J^ses lyftes ge-drif, oj'erne dsel torneamenta vocant, in quibus milites ex
on hfes wateres ge-drif, ^riddan dsel on dicto convenire solent ad ostentationem
helle neowelnysse." In the legend of St. virium suarum et audacise temere congre-
Brandan these fallen spirits appear in the diuntur, unde mortes hominum et pericula
shape of birds. animarum sscpe proveniunt, fieri prohibe-
\ Tournaments were a source of great aius. Quod si quis eorum ibi mortuus