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The basket, in the latter form, was doubtless an adaptation from the ritual of the basket-born God-Child, as was the birth story of Jesus. The story of the floating child, finally, becomes part of the lore of Greece. In the myth of Apollo, the Babe-God and his sister Artemis are secured in float-islands.
When questioned, on this subject by the bishop who confirmed him, he answered smartly, that there were a great many saints, and only three hundred and sixty-five days to divide amongst them. The politeness of the pope promoted the patron in order to compliment the god-child, and Saint Napoleon des Ursins was accommodated with a festival.
He is a little man, born at Leyden in Holland; he was at Antwerp. I have drawn with the metal-point the portrait of Master Lukas van Leyden. The man with the three rings has overreached me by half. I did not understand the matter. I bought a red cap for my god-child for eighteen st. Lost twelve st. at play. Drank two st.
"What's the difference between a god-child and a God's child?" "The bottle of chloroform is in the medicine closet, my poor dear; shall I run and get it?" murmured Himself sotto voce. "Every child is a child of God," I began helplessly, "and when she is somebody's godchild she oh! lend me your handkerchief, Billy!" "Is it the nose-bleed, mother?" he asked, bending over me solicitously.
As he is my god-child, I again claimed the right of putting a thousand dollars to his credit in the bank, I have to speak of dollars to you people living in Canada which I have done on his every birthday. When he is twenty-one he will have twenty-one thousand dollars quite enough for a start in life. We get along well together, and I think he will develop a fine faculty for science.
If a good fairy had built the house for me with a wave of her wand, and I had been a princess and her favoured god-child, I could not have been more considered in it. So many preparations were made for me and such an endearing remembrance was shown of all my little tastes and likings that I could have sat down, overcome, a dozen times before I had revisited half the rooms.
Whereupon she began to tell the young lord all that that had befallen the child by the malice of Satan, and how they laid it to her charge until such time as the all-righteous God brought her innocence to light; and she begged that since her dear lord had commanded her to wear the same garments at her wedding which she had worn to salute the Swedish king, and afterwards to go to the stake, he would likewise suffer her to take for her bridemaiden her little god-child, as indicium secundum of her sorrows.
All the way home Violet kept sobbing and crying out that she was never driven so slowly. She was convinced that some harm had happened to her own Jack. She ran up to the night-nursery at once and woke your god-child out of a healthy sleep. And he arose in his full strength and yelled. From "Q." Troy Town. New Year's Eve, 1892.
I asked whether Irene intended to be my god-mother, as she had threatened. "Not so," replied Martina. "On that point she has changed her mind." "So much the better," I said. "But why?" "There is a canon of the Church, Olaf, which forbids intermarriage between a god-parent and his or her god-child," she replied dryly. "Whether this canon has come to the Augusta's memory or not, I cannot say.
It is more likely that it was the astrological predilections of the gospel writer which led him to assign to his God-child a star in the heavens. The belief that the stars determine human destinies is a very ancient one. Such expressions in our language as "ill-starred," "a lucky star," "disaster," "lunacy," and so on, indicate the hold which astrology once enjoyed upon the human mind.
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