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Latona. For more reasons than this, Loduna may be supposed to be the Grecian Latona, for they were both supposed to inhabit an Island, undisturbed with storms, fertile in the extreme, and cloathed with verdure twice in the year. Freya bears some resemblance to Venus; she was inconsolable at the loss of her husband, as Venus was at the loss of Adonis; the pig was sacrificed to Venus, and the boar to Freya; Freya and Frigga moreover, bear some resemblance to Juno and Diana, because, like them, they were invoked by pregnant women. The Nornæ of the Northern nations, seem to answer to the Parcæ of the Greeks and Latins, for they were equally esteemed the arbiters of the life of men. The Northern notions concerning Genii who shun the light, magic rites, and the emigration of the soul from the body, may
