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And so it came about that presently the Colonel found himself, floating with the Signora down the quiet rio by which they had entered the vignoli.

Nouvelles études de Mythologie, p. 51. Vignoli, Mito e Scienza, p. 27. Marillier, Preface to the French translation of Andrew Lang's Myth, Ritual, and Religion. On this point consult a work very rich in information, W. Crooke's book, Popular Religion and Folk-lore of Northern India, 1897. "The Indian traversing the Montaña never feels himself alone. Legions of beings accompany him.

Unusual honors were paid them, as in the case of Maria Portia Vignoli, to whom a statue was erected in the public square of Viterbo to commemorate her great learning in natural science. An artist, Matilda Festa, held a professorship in the Academy of St. Luke in Rome, and Maria Maratti, daughter of the Roman painter Carlo Maratti, made a good reputation both as an artist and a poetess.

When he had been making a desultory sketch, away out toward Malamocco, or in among the vignoli in the northern lagoon, pausing perhaps, for a good five minutes, between grassy banks, to listen to the whistle of the blackbird in the hedge, he felt no imperative call to seize an oar and double the rate of speed on the homeward way.

Although it is very doubtful that there are such now, it is probable that there were in the beginning, when man had scarcely left the brute level at least if we agree with Vignoli that we already find in the higher animals embryonic forms of animism. In any event, mythic creation appears early. We can infer this from the signs of puerility of certain legends.