Mythology

If you accidentally drop a pair of scissors and it fixes itself on the floor with the handle
pointing towards you, you will receive a gift.
A pair of opened-out scissors keeps witches and other evil spirits at bay. (India.) cf.
Iron.
Scorpion: Scorpions sometimes sting themselves to death. Scorpions have an oil which
is a remedy for their stings. (HAZLITT, p. 536.)
Scrat: Slovenian Folklore. A demon which dwells in woods and mountains. This fact
indicates that this demon was originally a forest-spirit.
Sea: There is a legend as to how the sea became salty. A seacaptain had robbed a
young man of a magic mill which ground out anything that was asked for. After he had
learnt the secret of setting the mill going from the owner, the wicked sailor pushed the
young man overboard, but forgot to learn how to stop the mill. He wished for some salt,
and the mill ground out salt in such quantity, that the ship sank in mid-ocean. The mill
still grinds out salt from the bottom of the sea. (Deutsche M rchen seit Gritnm, p. 266;
cf. BASSETT, p. 21.)
The roaring of the sea predicts a storm. (BRAND, Observations, Vol. II, p. 240.)
A Berber superstition says that God made gnats to swallow the water of the rebellious
ocean which was not salty then; then when it promised obedience, caused them to
vomit it up, but since then the sea is salty. (HAY in M lusine, March, 1885.)
Scyros: Gr. Myth. An island in the AEgean Sea.
Sea-gull: It is unlucky to kill a sea-gull.
If you do not wish a sea-gull to fly away, put some salt on its tail.
Sea-Serpent: A great mythical sea-monster of serpentine form and enormous length; it
is frequently reported to have been seen at sea. It is fabled to appear to announce
some great calamity, such as the death of a king. (BASSETT, p. 221. See LEHMANN,
Aberglaube und Zauberei.)
Seal: According to the Greenlanders, seals and wildfowls are scared by spectres
"which no human eye but the sorcerer’s can behold." (TYLOR, P.C., Vol. II, p. xi;
CRANZ, Gr nland, p. 267.)
The Esquimaux believe that seals will be frightened away, if the heads of those taken
are thrown into the water; so they burn them or pile them up on the shore. (BASSETT,
p. 246, quoting FARRER, Primitive Customs, p. 28.)
Seb: Egypt. Myth. The earth deified. The consort of Seb was Nut, the sky; their childreninclude Osiris, Isis, Nepthys and Set. Vide Shu. Sebastian, St.: St. Sebastian cures diseases because he was martyred with arrows.

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