FOOTNOTES
1
[ Metamorphoseon, seu de Asino Aureo, libri Xl. The well known and beautiful episode is in the fourth, the fifth, and the sixth books.]
2
[ This ceremony will be explained in a future page.]
3
[ A common exclamation of sorrow, surprise, fear, and other emotions. It is especially used by women.]
4
[ Quoted from view of the Hindoos, by William Ward, of Serampore (vol. i. p. 25).]
5
[ In Sanskrit, Vetala-pancha-Vinshati. “Baital” is the modern form of “Vetala”.]
6
[ In Arabic, Badpai el Hakim.]
7
[ Dictionnaire philosophique sub v. “Apocryphes.”]
8
[ I do not mean that rhymes were not known before the days of Al-Islam, but that the Arabs popularized assonance and consonance in Southern Europe.]
9
[ “Vikrama” means “valour” or “prowess.”]
10
[ Mr. Ward of Seramp
