Etruscan Roman remains in popular tradition (1892)
Leland, Charles Godfrey, 1824-1903 · London, T. F. Unwin · leaf 118
of Tuscan belief are very much allied to the mis-chievous household goblins. They all make naughty love to women, and act asincubi, or nightmares, and cause wild dreams. Quite the same spirits were knownof old in Assyria. Lenormant says {Alagie Chaldaiemie):— I02 ETRUSCAN ROMAN REMAINS. To the… … (On a patera. (Etruscan) Museum, Florence.) make the stables and the houses the scene of their malicious tricks; spirits whose existence has beenadmitted by so many people, and which are still believed in by the peasants in m.iny parts of Europe. QUERCIOLA. 103 It may be remarked that nearly all…
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