M. De Tournefort has given, in his travels, an account of

the digging up an imaginary Broucolack in the island of Mycone, where he was on the 1st of January, 1701. His words are as follow : — " We were present at a very differ- ent scene in the same island, upon occasion of one of those dead corpses, which they suppose to come to life again after their burial. The man, whose story I am going to relate, was a peasant in Mycone, naturally ill-natured and quarrelsome (a circumstance of consequence in such cases) ; he was murdered in the fields, nobody knew how, or by whom.
" Two days after his being buried in a chapel in the town it was noised about that he was seen in the night walking about in a great hurry ; that he came into houses and tumbled about their goods, griped people behind, and played a thousand little monkey tricks. At first it was only laughed at, but it soon grew to be a very serious affair when the better sort of people joined in the com- plaint. The Papas themselves gave credit to it, and no doubt had their reasons for so doing. Masses, to be sure, •we said, but the peasant was incorrigible, and continued his old trade. After several meetings of the chief people of the town, and of the priests and monks, it was concluded to be necessary, in obedience to some old ceremonial, to wait till nine days after the burial.
" On the tenth day, a mass was said in the chapel where the body lay, in order to drive out the devil, which was imagined to have taken possession of it. When the mass was over the body was taken up, and preparations were made for pulling out its heart. The butcher of the town, an old clumsy fellow, began with opening the belly instead of the breast. He groped a long while among the entrails without finding what he looked for, till at last somebody said he should cut up the diaphragm, and then the heart was pulled out, to the admiration of the spectators. In the meantime the carcass stunk so abominably that they were obliged to burn frankincense but the smoke mixing with the fumes of the corpse, increased the stink and began to heat the poor people's brains. Their imagination, already affected with the spectacle before them, grew full of whimsies, and they took it into their heads that a thick smoke came from the body ; nor durst we say that it was only the smoke of the incense.
" In the chapel and the square before it they were incessantly bawling out Broucolack, which is the name they give to these pretended redivivi. From hence the bellowing was communicated to the streets and seemed to be invented on purpose to split the roof of the chapel. Several there present averred that the blood of the offender was red, and the butcher swore that the body was still warm, whence they concluded that the deceased was guilty of a heavy crime for not being thoroughly dead, or
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rather for suffering himself to be re-animated by the devil, which is the notion they have of a Broucolack. They then roared out that word in a stupendous manner. Just at this time there cams in a flock of people, who loudly protested that they plainly saw the body was not grown stiff when it was carried from the fields to the church to be buried, and that consequently it was a true Brouco- lack, which word continued to be the burden of the song.
" I question not but they would have sworn it did not stink if we had not been there so thoroughly were their heads turned upon this occasion, and so strongly were they infatuated with the notion of these spectres. As for us, we got as close to the body as we could, that we might observe what passed more exactly, and were almost poisoned with the stink. When they asked us what we thought of the corpse we told them we believed it to be completely dead, and having a mind to cure, or, at least, not to exas- perate their prejudices, we presented to them that it was no wonder the butcher should feel some warmth, by groping in the entrails, which were then putrefying, that it was no extraordinary thing for it to emit fumes since the same will happen upon turning up a dunghill, and that as for the pretended redness of the blood, it was still visible by the butcher's hands, that it was a mere stinking nasty smear.
" After all our reasoning they resolved upon going to the sea-shore, and there burning the dead man's heart. But, notwithstanding this execution, he did not grow more peaceable, but made more noise than ever. He was accused of beating people in the night, breaking down doors, and even roofs of houses, shattering windows, tearing clothes, and emptying casks and bottles. It was a ghost of a very thrifty constitution ; nor do I belie-ve that he spared any house but the consul's, where we lodged. In the meantime nothing could be more deplorable than the condition of this island. Not a head in it but was turned ; the wisest among them were seized like the rest. In shoit, it was a real disorder of the brain, as dangerous as lunacy or madness. Whole families quitted their houses, and brought their beds from the remotest parts of the town into the great square, there to spend the night. Every one complained of some fresh insult, and nothing could be heard but groans at the approach of night. The most sensible people among them thought proper to retire into the country.
'" When the prepossesion was so general, we thought it our best way to hold our tongues. Had we opposed it we should have been treated not only as fools, but as infidels. Indeed, how was it possible to bring a whole nation to its senses ? Those who believed in their hearts that we doubted the truth of the fact, came and reproached us with our incredulity, and endeavoured to prove that there were such things as Broucolacks, by quotations out of the Buckler of Faith, written by father Richard, a Jesuit missionary. Their argument was this : He was a Latin, and therefore you ought to believe him, nor should we have got anything by denying the consequence. We were entertained every morning with a recital of the new pranks of this night-bird, who was even charged with being guilty of the most abominable sins.
" Some of the citizens, who were most zealous for the public good, took it into their heads that there had been a defect in the most essential part of the ceremony. They were of opinion that mass ought not to have been said, till after the heart had been pulled out. With this precaution they insisted that the devil must needs have been worsted, and would not have ventured to come again j whereas, by mass being said first, he had time enough given him to make off, and return to his post when the dinger was over.
*' After alt these wise reflections, they were as much psrplexed as at first setting out. They meet night and
morning, debate, and make processions for three days and three nights. The Papas are obliged to fast, and run from house to house with sprinklers on their hands. Holy water is plentifully scattered about, even to the washing of the doors, and filling the mouth of the poor Broucolack.
" We repeated it so often to the magistrates, that we should not fail in Christendom to appoint a watch by night upon such an occasion, in order to observe what passed in the town, that at last they apprehended some vagabonds who had certainly a hand in these disorders ; but either they were not the principal agents, or they were dismissed too soon. For two days after, to make them- selves amends for the fast they had kept in prison, they begun to empty the wine casks of such as had been silly enough to leave their houses in the night, so that nothing was left but to have recourse again to prayers.
" One day, as they were repeating a certain form, after having stuck a number of naked swords in the grave where the carcass lay (which they dug up three or four times a day to gratify the whim of whoever came by), an Albanian, who happened to be at Mycone, took upon him to pro- nounce with an air of great wisdom, that it was ridiculous to make use of the swords of Christians in such a case as ^this. " Are you so blind," says he, " as not to see that the hilt of these swords, being made in the form of a cross, hinders the devil from coming out of the carcass ? I am surprised that you do not take the Turkish sabres." But the expedient of this wise personage had no effect : the Broucolack was still unruly ; the whole island continued in a strange consternation, and they were utterly at a loss what saint to invoke, when all of a sudden, as if they had given one another the word, they begun to bawl all over the city that they had waited too long, that the Broucolack should be burned to ashes, and then they defied the devil to harbour there any longer, and that it was better to have recourse to this extremity, than to have the island totally deserted. For, in fact, several whole families had begun to pack up in order to retire to Syra or Tinos.
" The magistrates, therefore, gave orders to carry the Broucolack to the point of St. George's Island, where they got ready a great pile, with pitch and tar, for fear the wood should not burn fast enough of itself. The remnant of this miserable carcass was thrown into it and soon consumed. It was the ist of January, 1701, and we saw the flame as we returned from Delos. It might properly be called a rejoicing bonfire, as no more complaints were heard of the Broucolack. They only said that the devil had at last met with his match, and some ballads were made to turn him into ridicule.
" It is a notion which prevails all over the Archipelago that the devil re-animates no carcasses but those of the Greek communion. The inhabitants of Santorini are terribly afraid of these bug-bears : those of Mycone, after their whims were dissipated, were equally afraid of a prose- cution from the Turks, and from the bishop of Tinos. Not a single Papas would venture to be at St. George's when the body was burnt, for fear the bishop should insist upon a fee for their taking up and burning a body without his leave. As for the Turks, they did not fail, at their next visit, to make the Myconians pay heavily for their treatment of this poor devil, who became in every respect an object of abomination and horror to all the country."
Greeley, Horace : {See Spiritualism.)
Green Lion : (See Philosopher's Stone.)
Gregory, Mrs. Makdougail : (See British National Association of Spiritualists.)
Gregory the Seventh : A pope of the eleventh century, against whom a charge of necromancy was brought. He is chiefly notable for his bitter and prolonged struggle with
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Henry IV., Emperor of Germany. A quarrel arose between them regarding the gift by Henry of ecclesiastical dignities, to account for which he was summoned before Gregory. He refused to appear, was excommunicated, and, in return, had the pope kidnapped by brigands. Gregory, however, was rescued by the people of Rome, and on his release commanded the Germans to elect a new emperor, Rudolph, duke of Suabia. Henry, attended by a very small retinue, thereupon repaired to Canossa, where Gregory at that time resided, to arrange for terms of peace. He was there treated with such severity and studied neglect that his desire to come to terms with the pope left him, and on his return he elected an anti-pope, Clement