The dialogue is in rhyming iambic catalectic tetra- meters (8,6,8,6 of our hymn-books), which is the regular Greek ballad metre but as the words themselves are preserved with some jealousy, it is not easy to get a copy of them. The performance is evidently got up with some care, and tne actors, especially the archangel, are not without dramatic power of a kind. Ths chorus pronounces a short epilogue, and points a seasonable moral-" If you would escape the miser's doom,put your pennie& in the box." The play is over the miser rises in the sight of all, takes up his bed, and walks off with the rest ot the troupe to the next convenient spot. IX.) A sholt pause, while the devils make feints with their weapons then the soul's scale slowly sinks its condemnation is pronounced, and it is given over to the tormentors, who struggle over it, gnaw it with their teeth, and make believe to impale it on their tridents, snarling and squealing with fielndish joy the while. A pair of scales is brought, and the guilty soul is placed in one of them, its good actions being assumed to occupy the other. It is beyond the purpose of the present note to do more than recall the interest attaching to such a represeritation of a very early primitive religious idea. VIII.) The angels drive them back, but at last consent to abide by the test of weighing. POHATH KEHELPANNALA.-Ceren?OHbiS observedĭance round withl discordant cries, and try to seize and torment it. This content downloaded from 193.104.110.48 on Sat, 14:24:29 PMAll use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditionsġ04 T. For more information about JSTOR, please contact Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserveand extend access to The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new formsof scholarship. JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range ofcontent in a trusted digital archive.
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