Mythology

Shuck: A Norfolk ghost; one of a numerous family of animal spirits (See Word-Lore,
Vol. I, p. 167). Shudder: If you shudder without any apparent cause, someone is walking over yourgrave. (Great Britain, India.) Sickle: In Bulgaria, when a child is born, the witch brings a reaping-hook into the roomand then proceeds to rub the infant all over with salt, and to fumigate the room in orderto drive away evil spirits from mother and child. (ST. CLAIR AND BROPHY, p. 69.) Sickness: In the Slave Coast of Africa the mother of a sick child believes that an evil
spirit has taken possession of the child’s body, and in order to drive him out, she makes small cuts in the body of thesufferer and inserts green pepper in the wounds. The poor child screams with pain, butthe mother thinks that the demon is suffering. (ELLIS. Yoru ba-speaking Peoples, p.
113 sq. ; cf. Ethnologie du Bengale, p. 130; FEAZER, Taboo, pp. 45 sqq.; id., SCAPEGOAT,
p. 139; TYLOR, P.C., ii, 115, 134; DOOLITTLE, The Chinese, ii, 265; Howitt,
Native Tribes, pp. 356, 358; SKEAT, p. ii; MARSDEN, Hist. of Sumatra, p. 157; ROTH,
in North Queensland Ethnog. Bull. No. 5, 116; TAPLIN, The Narrinyeri, 62 sq.; ST.
JOHN, i, 217.) Siddhas: Hind. Myth. A class of semi-divine beings of great purity and holiness, whodwell in the regions of the sky between the earth and the sun. They are said to be88,000 in number. (DowsoN, H.C.D., p. 292.) Siegfried: The hero of the Nibelungenlied. He was brought up in the forest by thedemoniac smith Mimir. In his youth he accomplished wonderful deeds, winning thehoards of the Nibelungs, the sword Balmung, Tarnkappe, and slaying the dragon, inwhose blood he bathed himself to make himself invulnerable. The only part of his bodywhich was vulnerable was a spot between his shoulders where a leaf fell, and thus prevented
from coming in contact with the dragon’s blood. He aids Gunther to winBrunhilde, and weds Kriemhild. Later, he is treacherously slain by the fierce Hagen,
who gets the hoard of the Nibelungs and buries it in the Rhine. The widowed Kriemhildmarries Etzel, a king of the Huns, and takes her revenge for the foul murder ofSiegfried by slaying Gunther, Hagen and all their comrades. (KARL SIMROCK, DasNibelungenlied.) Vide Mimir, Nibelungs, Balmung, Tarnkappe, Gunther, Brunhilde,
Kriemhild, Hagen, Etzel. Sien: Chin. Myth. Eight divine beings, living in Heaven and said to he immortal. Theywere: Jung Li K n, Jang Go, Lu G n (or Lu Dung Bin), Tsau Guo Gin, Lan Tsai Ho,
Li Tia Guai, Han Siang Dsi and Ho Sian Gu. Vide Immortal. Sieve : If children look at a sieve, they will suffer from a skin disease. (FRAZER, G.B2.,
Vol. 1, p. 44.) Vide Salt.

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