CARMEN, the fisherman’s wife who, in Lufcadio Hearn’s story Chita, adopts the baby dragged by her husband from the surf, and takes it to her heart in place of the child she has lost (1889).

Carmen (Eschelle), beautiful, ambitious, and intriguing New York society girl.—­Charles Dudley Warner, A Little Journey in the World (1889).

CARMILHAN, the “phantom ship.”  The captain of this ship swore he would double the Cape, whether God willed it or not, for which impious vow he was doomed to abide forever and ever captain in the same vessel, which always appears near the Cape, but never doubles it.  The kobold of the phantom ship is named Klaboterman, a kobold who helps sailors at their work, but beats those who are idle.  When a vessel is doomed the kobold appears smoking a short pipe, dressed in yellow, and wearing a night-cap.

CARO, the Flesh or “natural man” personified.  Phineas Fletcher says “this dam of sin” is a hag of loathsome shape, arrayed in steel, polished externally, but rusty within.  On her shield is the device of a mermaid, with the motto, “Hear, Gaze, and Die.”—­The Purple Island, vii. (1633).

CAROLINE, queen-consort of George II., introduced by sir W. Scott in The Heart of Midlothian.  Jeanie Deans has an interview with her in the gardens at Richmond, and her majesty promises to intercede with the king for Effie Deans’s pardon.

CAROS OR CARAUSIUS, a Roman captain, native of Belgic Gaul.  The emperor Maximian employed Caros to defend the coast of Gaul against the Franks and Saxons.  He acquired great wealth and power, but fearing to excite the jealousy of Maximian, he sailed for Britain, where (in A.D. 287) he caused himself to be proclaimed emperor.  Caros resisted all attempts of the Romans to dislodge him, so that they ultimately acknowledged his independence.  He repaired Agricola’s wall to obstruct the incursions of the Caledonians, and while he was employed on this work was attacked by a party commanded by Oscar, son of Ossian and grandson of Fingal.  “The warriors of Caros fled, and Oscar remained like a rock left by the ebbing sea.”—­Ossian, The War of Caros.

CARPATH’IAN WIZARD (The), Proteus (2 syl.), who lived in the island of Car’pathos, in the Archipelago.  He was a wizard, who could change his form at will.  Being the sea-god’s shepherd, he carried a crook.

[By] the Carpathian wizard’s book [crook].  Milton, Comus, 872 (1634).

CARPET (Prince Housain’s), a magic carpet, to all appearances quite worthless, but it would transport any one who sat on it to any part of the world in a moment.  This carpet is sometimes called “the magic carpet of Tangu,” because it came from Tangu, in Persia.—­Arabian Nights ("Prince Ahmed").

Carpet (Solomon’s).  Solomon had a green silk carpet, on which his throne was set.  This carpet was large enough for all his court to stand on; human beings stood on the right side of the throne, and spirits on the left.  When Solomon wished to travel he told the wind where to set him down, and the carpet with all its contents rose into the air and alighted at the proper place.  In hot weather the birds of the air, with outspread wings, formed a canopy over the whole party.—­Sale, Koran, xxvii. (notes).