The darkness then lifted; but nothing was to be
seen--nothing save the trees and bushes, moon and stars.
FOOTNOTES:
[Footnote 16: This is a very sinister sign in astrology, denoting
the presence of evil influences of all kinds.--(_Author's note._)]
[Footnote 17: According to Atlantean ideas these spirits were:--Vice
Elementals; Morbas (or Disease Elementals); Clanogrians (or
malicious family ghosts, such as Banshees, etc.); Vampires;
Barrowvians, _i.e._ a grotesque kind of phantasm that frequents
places where prehistoric man or beast has been interred; Planetians,
_i.e._ spirits inimical to dwellers on this earth that inhabit
various of the other planets; and earthbound spirits of such dead
human beings as were mad, imbecile, cruel and vicious, together with
the phantasms of vicious and mad beasts, and beasts of
prey.--(_Author's note_.)]
[Footnote 18: They are a literal translation of the Atlantean by
Thos. Maitland, and are very nearly identified with forms of spirit
invocation used in Egypt, India, Persia, Arabia, and among the Red
Indians of North and South America.--(_Author's note_.)]
CHAPTER VI
THE FIRST POWER
After their rencontre with the Unknown, Hamar and his companions did
not get back to their respective quarters till the sun was high in the
heavens, and the streets of the city were beginning to vibrate with
the rattle and clatter of traffic.
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