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Title: The Jews in ancient, mediaeval and modern times
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: Hosmer, James Kendall, 1834-1927
Subjects: Jews
Publisher: London : T. Fisher Unwin
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ant superstition are nothing more or less than the remains of the great legends of the old heathen religious faiths, softened down, but still living in the souls of the people. Grimm and his school would have us believe that the phantoms of the mighty Norse gods still haunt the modern generations of the Teutonic stock, refusing to be exorcised from the popular mind. * Raider the beautiful is dead, is dead, sings the Swedish poet Tegner, after the old saga; and in like manner with Balder, we have believed that Odin and Thor and Freya were utterly gone, with the men that paid them worship. These students would have us believe that the ghosts of the gods, at any rate, refuse to be laid. Sometimes in blithe and merry guise they continue to appear in the souls of men belonging to the great races whose forefathers worshipped them; sometimes the grim circumstance that attended them in their former pre-eminence is not laid aside. What wonderful grandeur in the thought that these rough hands of the old gods
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THE WANDERING JEW. 2 12 THE STORY OF THE JEWS. refuse to become decrepit through time, or beaten off by culture! How they reach round the new altars that have crowded out their own simple fanes, because the all-conquering Jew has willed it should be so ! How they cross the widest oceans to the homes of the farthest wanderers, still haunting, phantom-like, the hearts of men whose barbariansires held them dear! The superstition of the Wild Huntsman, still cherished by many a simple peasant soul, can be thus traced back through the centuries to an originin the stormy faith professed by the vikings. The fierce rider who presses unsatisfied, attended by his troop of deathless hounds, mid the roar of the winters blast, through the heavens torn with the tempest, in pursuit of the stag that forever flies before him, was really the god Odin. As we think how the Wandering Jew has become connected with this stormy Northern myth, it might seem as if th old dispossessed chief of the Norse deities, wrathfulat th

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