mian throne, was called into Poland, where he arranged the difficulties which existed among the successors of Lech. He is also considered as the founder of the town of Krakau.
Note 6. Page 6.
↑ The sons of Æsculapius.] Medical practitioners, in Germany, are often so called, from Æsculapius, the god of medicine.
Note 7. Page 12.
↑ The never-missing sieve.] Among the gypsies and some of the Sclavonian tribes, the sorcerers, or wise men, used to find out the culprit by bowling a sieve, which hit the guilty.
Note 8. Page 12.
↑ St. Martin, of Schierbach.] A saint who used to cure people by placing them so as to let his shadow fall upon them, by which act alone they fully recovered, as the story goes.
Note 9. Page 12.
↑ Apollo’s tripod.] Meaning the oracle of Delphi, where the priestess, or seer, sat upon a tripod.
Note 10. Page 17.
↑ Word-catchers.] A term used, in German, to signify flatterers, who look out for every word, to bestow praise upon the person whom they adulate.
