Strange survivals : some chapters in the history of man (1892)
Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine), 1834-1924 · London : Methuen & Co. · leaf 66
ss, who is obliged to keep geese. Theprincesss horse is killed, and its head set up over thecity gate. When the princess drives her geese out ofthe town she addresses the head, and the headanswers and counsels her. So in Norse mythologyOdin had a human head embalmed, and had recourseto it for… … King. Friar Bacons brazen head whereby he con-jured is a reminiscence of these oracular heads. In one of the Icelandic Sagas, the gable ends whistle in the wind, and give oracles according to the tone or manner in which they pipe. The busts that occupy niches in Italian buildingsare far-off…
Manners and customs · Superstition
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