Identifier: mythologyofallra03gray (find matches)
Title: The Mythology of all races ..
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Gray, Louis H. (Louis Herbert), 1875-1955 Moore, George Foot, 1851-1931 MacCulloch, J. A. (John Arnott), 1868-1950
Subjects: Mythology
Publisher: Boston, Marshall Jones Company
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Wellesley College Library

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PLATE XXIX V Setek While the Djadek (Plate XXVIII) is an ancestralspirit, the Setek, like the Skfitek (pp. 244-45),though now degraded to the low estate of a hobgoblin,is in origin a divine being who was the special pro-tector of the household.
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THE HOUSEHOLD GODS 245 or Schratt. This goblin, who appeared in the shape of a smallboy, usually lived behind the oven or in the stable, favouringthe household and sharing the joys and sorrows of the family;and he liked to do some work in the home, such as weaving onthe loom, sweeping the floor, or tending the flocks. In order to court his favour the household set aside a portionof their meals for his consumption, especially on Thursdaysand at Christmas dinner, when three bits from every dish wereassigned to him. If they failed to do this, he was angry andstormed about, worrying people, damaging the flocks, anddoing all sorts of harm to the master of the house. His memory still lives in popular tradition, and he wasrepresented by a wooden statue, with arms crossed on itsbreast and wearing a crown upon its head. This Image stood,as a rule, on a chiflFonier in a corner behind the table; and inany absence of the family the Skfitek was placed on a chiffonieror on a table to guard the hous

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