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SABRA, maiden for whom Severn River was named, daughter of Locrine and Estrildis thrown into river Severn by Locrine's wife, transformed to a river nymph, poetically named Sabrina
SACRIPANT, king of Circassia
SAFFIRE, Sir, knight of Arthur
SAGAS, Norse tales of heroism, composed by the Skalds
SAGRAMOUR, knight of Arthur
St. MICHAEL'S MOUNT, precipitous pointed rock hill on the coast of Brittany, opposite Cornwall
SAKYASINHA, the Lion, epithet applied to Buddha
SALAMANDER, a lizard like animal, fabled to be able to live in fire
SALAMIS, Grecian city
SALMONEUS, son of Aeolus and Enarete and brother of Sisyphus
SALOMON, king of Brittany, at Charlemagne's court
SAMHIN, or "fire of peace," a Druidical festival
SAMIAN SAGE (Pythagoras)
SAMOS, island in the Aegean Sea
SAMOTHRACIAN GODS, a group of agricultural divinities, worshipped in Samothrace
SAMSON, Hebrew hero, thought by some to be original of Hercules
SAN GREAL (See Graal, the Holy)
SAPPHO, Greek poetess, who leaped into the sea from promontory of Leucadia in disappointed love for Phaon
SARACENS, followers of Mahomet
SARPEDON, son of Jupiter and Europa, killed by Patroclus
SATURN (Cronos)
SATURNALIA, a annual festival held by Romans in honor of Saturn
SATURNIA, an ancient name of Italy
SATYRS, male divinities of the forest, half man, half goat
SCALIGER, famous German scholar of 16th century
SCANDINAVIA, mythology of, giving account of Northern gods, heroes, etc
SCHERIA, mythical island, abode of the Phaeacians
SCHRIMNIR, the boar, cooked nightly for the heroes of Valhalla becoming whole every morning
SCIO, one of the island cities claiming to be Homer's birthplace
SCOPAS, King of Thessaly
SCORPION, constellation
SCYLLA, sea nymph beloved by Glaucus, but changed by jealous Circe to a monster and finally to a dangerous rock on the Sicilian coast, facing the whirlpool Charybdis, many mariners being wrecked between the two, also, daughter of King Nisus of Megara, who loved Minos, besieging her father's city, but he disliked her disloyalty and drowned her, also, a fair virgin of Sicily, friend of sea nymph Galatea
SCYROS, where Theseus was slain
SCYTHIA, country lying north of Euxine Sea
SEMELE, daughter of Cadmus and, by Jupiter, mother of Bacchus
SEMIRAMIS, with Ninus the mythical founder of the Assyrian empire of Nineveh
SENAPUS, King of Abyssinia, who entertained Astolpho
SERAPIS, or Hermes, Egyptian divinity of Tartarus and of medicine
SERFS, slaves of the land
SERIPHUS, island in the Aegean Sea, one of the Cyclades