The mythology of Greece and Rome : with special references to its use in art (1900)
Seemann, Otto, 1825-1901, Bianchi, G. H. (George Henry) · New York : American Book · leaf 180
as a token of their swiftness. 19. Hecate.—Among the mystic deities of the lowerworld we must not omit to mention Hecate. By the Ro- THE GODS OF THE EARTH AND LOWER WORLD. Ill mans, indeed, she was never publicly venerated, though shewas not exactly unknown to them. Common traditionmade her a… … Wig, 47.—Three-formed Hecate. Capitoliue Museum. side over all nocturnal horrors, and not only to haunt th«tombs and cross-roads herself in company with the spiritsof the dead, but also to send nightly phantoms from thelower world, such as the man-eating spectre Empusa, andother fabulous goblins.…
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