Mythology

436-7.)
Children should be introduced into their future profession before they are seven years
old; they will have luck in their professions. (Hesse, Westhalia.-WUTTKE, p. 202;
WOLF, Beitrage, Vol. I, p. 206.)
The ages of seven and all multiples of seven are critical years for children. (Great
Britain.) cf. Thirteen, Three.
Seven Sleepers of Ephesus: An early Christian legend in which seven noble youths of
Ephesus fly to a cavern, are pursued by their enemies, and are walled in. They fail
asleep and wake up after a lapse of two centuries. (cf. the Legend of Rip van Winkle;
see ELWORTHY, The Evil Eye, p. 407.) Vide Al Raqim.
Sexton: A sexton mowing the churchyard will bring about a rainfall. (STRACKERJAN,
Vol. I, p. 35.)
Shabriri: Jewish Folklore. The demon of blindness. He rests on uncovered water at
night, and inflicts blindness on those who drink it. (Jew. Enc., Vol. IV., p. 517.)
Shadow: A shadow is a kind of a personal spirit, and is able under certain circumstances,
to live apart from the owner. (cf. CHAMISSO, Peter Schienjihi.)
The Basutos say, if a man walks on the river bank, a crocodile may seize his shadow
on the water and drag him in after it. (SIR J. LUBBOCK, Origin of Civilization, 1882, p.
219; cf. TYLOR, P.C., i, 43; FRAZER, Taboo, p. 77; SPENCER, i. 180.)
The Jews believe that if the shadow of one’s head be invisible against the wall in a
house where a light is burning, on Hosha’na Rabbah Eve, it is an omen that the person
is destined to die within a year. (Jew. Enc., Vol. IV, p. 486.)
The Hindus say that the shadow is a ghost, and would not look at it after dark, for fear
that they may be seized by it. (cf. H. SPENCER, Principles of Sociology, Lond., 1906, i,
116.)
He who does not throw a shadow on Christmas Eve, will surely die in the next year.
(STRACKERJAN, Vol. 1, p. 32), or is a ghost. (India.-CROOKE, Vol. I, p. 237; JACKSON,
F.L.N., Vol. I, p. 106.)
In modern Greece, a builder who cannot get a human victim, entices a man on to the
site, secretly measures his body or his shadow and buries the measure under the foundation
stone. It is believed that the man whose shadow is thus buried will die within the
year. (SCHMIDT, Das Volksleben der Neugriechen, p. 196 et seq.; FRAZER, G.B2.,
Vol. I, p. 145; ELWORTHY, E.E., p. 82.) The Roumanians have a similar belief.
(ELWORTHY, p. 82.)
Shaitan: Muham. Folklore. ("The devil"). This word is commonly used to signify a jinn.
(LANE, A.S.M.A., p. 27.)
Shaman: In its vulgar usage, it means a "medicine-man."
Shamash: Assyro-Babyl. Myth. The chief sun-god, a beneficent power, who drives

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