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CHAPTER III. SOUTH-MOUNTAIN TRADITIONS. ? THE INDIAN. A ND now
adieu to the fanciful romance that -- invests South-Mountain-House
with the charm of the unseen. We may almost say a sad farewell to
the exaltation of the imagination with which we love to welcome the
beautiful nature surrounding us, for our theme must now be of the
savage, of spooks, and of sorcery. If, as we have seen,
South-Mountain-House has its traditions, these are of gentle nature
compared with all around it; for South Mountain itself is steeped
in an atmosphere of superstition from base to summit. These
practices and idle fancies are so manifold, curious, hideous, and
absurd, that we are puzzled how to unravel the labyrinthine threads
of such a maze. We find, the more we inquire, however, vestiges of
the various superstitions of other countries;although the shape
they have taken here seems to be of growth indigenous to the
Mountain. It is, indeed, well known to all who have investigated
the history of the world's belief in similar subjects, that under
innumerous forms the manifestations of the curious and the
mysterious have appeared in all countries and been handed down
throughout the ages. The most astounding exhibitions probably occur
in the vast and dreamy Orient, where for thousands of years man has
theorized unassisted by revelation. There he revels in the wonders
of magic. The West then introduced in the pagan systems of the
Greeks and Romans so many forms of divination, that these became a
religious creed by which to guide conduct. After the oracular
voices were stilled by the coming of the Redeemer, faint echoes
still lingered among the nations, and the Scandinavian, the Saxon,
the Teuton, the Gaul handed down the gross admixture to the
Northman, the German, the Scotch, the Irish, ...
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