It would be
a singular coincidence that would make a Greek god an _omadran_. Keats,
with a fine intuition, has depicted those _mores afflatorum_, in the
satyrs who do the benevolent biddings of Pan:

"Thou, to whom every faun and satyr flies,
For willing service; whether, to surprise
The squatted hare, while, in half-sleeping fit,
Or upward ragged precipices flit
To save poor lambkins from the eagle's maw;
Or by mysterious enticement draw
Bewildered shepherds to their paths again."

Compare with this picture of the Irish lunatic among the boughs of the
tree on the field of Moira, the following extracts from Bosroger's account
of the possession of the nuns of Louviers, in A.D. 1642. One of the
sisters, surnamed De Jesus, conceived herself to be possessed by a demon
whom she called _Arracon_. "On the occasion of a procession of the host by
Monseigneur the Bishop of Evreux, _Arracon_ exhibited another example of
his quality, causing sister De Jesus to pour forth a torrent of
blasphemies and furious expressions all the time of the procession. When
she was brought into the choir, and held fast by an exorcist, for fear of
her offering some insult, the holy sacrament was borne past her. Arracon
immediately caused her to be shot forward through the air to a
considerable distance, so as to strike the gilt sun in which the adorable
eucharist was placed, out of the hands of the lord bishop; and the
exorcist making an effort to detain her, the demon lifted her up in the
air over an accoudoir, or leaning place, of three feet in height,
intending to lift her, as he declared, into the vault, but the exorcist
holding fast, all he could do was to cast the nun and exorcist back to the
floor together," &c. _Putiphar_, the possessor of Sister Saint Sacrement,
"made her with wonderful impetuosity run up a mulberry tree, of which the
stem was easy enough of ascent; but when she got up the stem, he forced
her onward till she approached the extremities of the slenderest branches,
and caused her to make almost the entire circuit of the mulberry tree, in
such sort that a man who saw her from a distance cried out that she flew
like a bird. Then the demon permitted her to see her peril; she grew pale,
and cried out with alarm. They ran in haste to bring a ladder, but
_Putiphar_ mocked them, crying, 'As I made this _chienne_ get up without a
ladder, so she shall go down,' and caused her descend the same slender
branches to the ste