* ‘The sorcerer’s flower,’ and ‘the sorcerer’s altar.’ – These are names still clinging to the anemone of the Brocken, and to an altar-shaped fragment of granite near one of the summits; and it is not doubted that they both connect themselves through links of ancient tradition with the gloomy realities of Paganism, when the whole Hartz and the Brocken formed for a very long time the last asylum to a ferocious but perishing idolatry.

* ‘Hailstone choruses’ – I need not tell any lover of Handel that his oratorio of ‘Israel in Egypt’ contains a chorus familiarly known by this name. The words are – ‘And he gave them hailstones for rain; fire, mingled with the hail, ran along upon the ground.’