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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ating and drinking for nine years, returning, after the lapseof this time, to the place of his birth, where he annoys theinmates. He may be bred out of an egg carried for nine daysin the arm-pit. In the belief of the Styrian Slovenians the Setek of oldentimes was a good spirit, about the size of a thumb, who gen-erally haunted places where salt was kept, or lived in stablesnear young cattle. Unless a portion of all that was boiled orroasted was put aside for him, he caused the fire in the ovento go out, or made the pans crack, or caused the cows to yieldblood instead of milk, etc. Being of very small size, he couldhide in any place and play tricks on those who teased him. Another designation of the family genius was Skfitek (Hob-goblin), a term which was derived from the German Schrat PLATE XXVIII DjADEK Like the Russian Deduska Domovoy (pp. 240-43),the Czech Djadek is in reality an ancestral spiritraised to the dignity of guardian of the household.After clay statues found in Silesia.
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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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