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The Ku-Klux Klan, a great secret society, was organized for this rough business, numbering at first, among either its members or its abettors, citizens of the highest respectability. Its local lodges were called "dens," its members "ghouls," " Giants," "goblins," "titans," "furies," "dragons," and "hydras," were names of different classes among its officers.
The Beast-books of Mediæval times knew all the monsters of paganism Satyrs, Fauns, Sphinxes, Harpies, Centaurs, Hydras, Pygmies, and Sirens; these were all regarded as various aspects of the Evil Spirit, so no research is needed as to their meaning; they are but a residuum of Antiquity.
There hydras fight, leviathans meet. There, says the legend, at the bottom of the gigantic shaft, are the wrecks of ships, seized and sunk by the huge spider Kraken, also called the fish-mountain. Such things lie in the fearful shadow of the sea. These spectral realities, unknown to man, are manifested at the surface by a slight shiver.
He banged away both barrels at haphazard into the night, and retreated as fast as his legs would carry him to the marabout's chapel-vault, leaving his knife standing up in the sand like a cross commemorative of the grandest panic that ever assailed the soul of a conqueror of hydras. "Help! this Way, prince; the lion is on me!" There was silence. "Prince, prince, are you there?"
"You mean, uncle, that if Count de Saix had come and knocked at the door and asked you to help him, you'd have called me up and sent me to the prison for the soldiers." "Now look here, Rodney, that's impudence, sir, and Ah! There's the microscope, and the slides and the glasses. Have they been disturbed?" "No, uncle. Just as we left them. I almost wonder they didn't carry off all those hydras."
I saw also a chameleon, such as Aristotle describes it, and like that which had been formerly shown me by Charles Maris, a famous physician of the noble city of Lyons on the Rhone; and the said chameleon lived on air just as the other did. I saw three hydras, like those I had formerly seen. They are a kind of serpent, with seven different heads. I saw also fourteen phoenixes.
Other creations of that marvellous Greek mind might be fitly used to symbolize phases of the present. Hercules might labor now; there are other stables than the Augean; and not yet are all Hydras slain. Armor is needed; and a Vulcan spirit is making the anvil ring beneath the earth-crust of humanity.
"There are certainly monsters enough in it," said Melick "'Gorgons, and hydras, and chimeras dire." "Well, why not?" said the doctor. "It seems to me," said Melick, "that the writer of this has peopled his world with creatures that resemble the fossil animals more than anything else." "The so-called fossil animals," said the doctor, "may not be extinct.
Gorgons, and Hydras, and Chimæras dire stories of Celæno and the Harpies may reproduce themselves in the brain of superstition but they were there before. They are transcripts, types the archetypes are in us, and eternal. How else should the recital of that, which we know in a waking sense to be false, come to affect us at all? or Names, whose sense we see not, Fray us with things that be not?
Ice against the rainy day I will provide, but ice for my children and my children's children, ice for a possible cosmic reversal that might twist the equator over the poles, I will not provide for. Nor will I go into the ice business." Nor did I! And I say the building of that ice-house has been an immense satisfaction to me. I entertain my due share of "Gorgons, and hydras and chimaeras dire";
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