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The Vampire in Europe
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The country people visit the churchyard on the afternoon of 1st November, and here they offer cakes and a kind of bun to the hungry dead. These cakes are known as " souls," and are made of the finest white flour in a fixed traditional manner. 84 In some districts food is thrown intathe fire in large quantities on All Souls' Day, and tables are spread with lighted candles, empty dishes and cups without wine. 86 In Bohemia the season of the dead is observed with many a hoar ritual and ancient courtesy.
Each in pathetic suppliance stands, So may he first be ferried o'er, And stretches out his helpless hands In yearning for the further shore :92 The hero asks his dread companion who are these mighty throngs. "These," she replies, "are all those whose bodies lie unburied beneath no mound of earth ; nor may they cross the holy stream until their bones are laid in some due restingplace. " Sallust, 93 the philosopher, speaks of the ghosts of the dead which have been seen lingering about their tombs as if loath to part, and from these apparitions he seeks to prove the doctrine of metempsychosis.
K. Huysmans spoke of this great saint as "le Saint ' sans autel ', . "44 By some extraordinary accident S. Jude was confounded with the traitor Judas, and was actually invoked by sorcerers and witches. It was even found necessary that this grievous profanity should be rebuked, and the error officially corrected. It is not without significance that S. Simon was often confused with S. Simeon, who in Italy is still regarded as a folletto or goblin Saint. " Appropriate invocations are particularly described.