Note 37 — XIV. THE WANDERING JEW IN FOLK-LORE.

Madoc, xi. This, however, is contrary to Welsh orthodoxy. I remember being present at a dinner-company in Wales, given to Ralph Waldo Emerson, when a gentleman present was sceptical enough to assure the eminent American that though he had often passed the traditional spot of Merlin’s aërial prison, he had never heard any voice from the air, and did not believe the story. Emerson answered: “You must be a bold man.”