Canens
In Greek and Roman mythology, Canens was the personification of song. She was a nymph from Latium.Her husband, King Picus, was turned into a woodpecker by Circe because he scorned her love. Canens searched for her husband for six days, then threw herself into the Tiber river. She sang one final song and then died. They had one son, Faunus.
reigning sovereign passes by, a certain landed proprietor
and sound a flourish according to the measure of his
crowned heads have no great business in the Pentland
the stone; and the passer-by will sometimes chuckle to
at the back-gate of Comiston, a belated carter beheld a
her feet,' who looked upon him in a very ghastly manner
Tryst, once a roadside inn, and not so long ago haunted
pitiful existence. He shook the four corners of the
windows, overthrew crockery in the dead hours of the
kind of spiritual disinfectant was put in requisition;
prayed by the hour; pious neighbours sat up all night.html">night
than the wind about the hill-tops; and it was only after
peace to occupy himself with the remainder of mankind.
singular visitation, the neighbourhood offers great
exactly casting in one's lot with that disenchanting
the winter wind in the last story. 'That nicht,' says
'THAT NICHT A CHILD MIGHT UNDERSTAND
And if people sit up all night in lone places on the
to hear some of the most fiendish noises in the world;
them, and make the hills howl around their cottage with a
finally begins to scale the main slope of the Pentlands.
and from a neighbouring dell, you can see smoke rising
hills climb a thousand feet into the air. The
the bleating of flocks; and you will be awakened, in the
the voice of a shepherd shouting to the echoes. This,
the city. Long ago, this sheltered field was purchased
that rise or gather there. After they had built their
that the place was suitable for junketing. Once
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