Note 522 — Chapter V · THE DEMONOLOGY OF GHOSTS AND SPRITES AND BOGEYS.
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Pliny cites Dinon as authority for a like superstition in India. Nat. Hist. X. 49 (F.H.G. II. p. 90): Nec Sirenes impetraverunt fidem adfirmet licet Dinon Clitarchi celebrati auctoris pater in India esse mulcerique earum cantu quos gravatos somno lacerent. And cf. Aelian H.A. XVIII. 22, 23. Siren in the Septuagint is the word used of the desert bogey that our translation renders ‘dragon,’ Job xxx. 30 ‘I am brother to the dragon and companion to owls,’ and again Micah i. 8 ‘I will make a wailing like the dragon and a mourning as the owls.’