EREEN’IA (3 syl.), a glendoveer’ or good spirit, the beloved son of Cas’yapa (3 syl.), father of the immortals.  Ereenia took pity on Kail’yal (2 syl.), daughter of Ladur’lad, and carried her to his Bower of Bliss in paradise (canto vii.).  Here Kailyal could not stay, because she was still a living daughter of earth.  On her return to earth, she was chosen for the bride of Jagannaut, and Ar’valan came to dishonor her; but she set fire to the pagoda, and Ereenia came to her rescue.  Ereenia was set upon by the witch Lor’rimite (3 syl.), and carried to the submerged city of Baly, whence he was delivered by Ladurlad.  The glendoveer now craved Seeva for vengeance, but the god sent him to Yamen (i.e. Pluto), and Yamen said the measure of iniquity was now full, so Arvalan and his father Kehama were both made inmates of the city of everlasting woe; while Ereenia carried Kailyal, who had quaffed the waters of immortality, to his Bower of Bliss, to dwell with him in everlasting joy.—­Southey, Curse of Kehoma (1809).

ERET’RIAN BULL (The). Menede’mos of Eretria, in Eubae’a, was called “Bull” from the bull-like breadth and gravity of his face.  He founded the Eretrian school (fourth century B.C.).

ERIC, “Windy-cap,” king of Sweden.  He could make the wind blow from any quarter by simply turning his cap.  Hence arose the expression, “a capful of wind.”

ERIC GRAY.  A young man whose religious principles will not let him marry the girl he loves because she has not “joined the church.”  His old love tells the story after his funeral.

  “And all my heart went forward, past the shadows and the cross,
  Even to that home where perfect love hath never thorn nor loss;
  Where neither do they marry, nor in marriage are given,
  But are like unto the angels in GOD’S house, which is Heaven.”

Margaret E. Sangster, Eric’s Funeral (1882).

ERICHTHO [Erik’.tho], the famous Thessaliaii witch consulted by
Pompey.—­Lucan, Pharsalia, vi.

ERICKSON (Sweyn), a fisherman at Jarlshof.—­Sir W. Scott, The
Pirate (time, William III.).

ERIC’THO, the witch in John Marston’s tragedy called The Wonder of
Women or Sophonisba (160)5.

ERIG’ENA (John Scotus), called “Scotus the Wise.”  He must not be confounded with Duns Scotus, “the Subtle Doctor,” who lived some four centuries later.  Erigena died in 875, and Duns Scotus in 1308.

ERIG’ONE (4 syl.), the constellation Virgo.  She was the daughter of Icarios, an Athenian, who was murdered by some drunken peasants.  Erigone discovered the dead body by the aid of her father’s dog Moera, who became the star called Canis.

  ... “that virgin, frail Erigone,
  Who by compassion got preeminence.”

Lord Brooke, Of Nobility.

ERILL’YAB (3 syl.), the widowed and deposed Queen of the Hoamen (2 syl.), an Indian tribe settled on a south branch of the Missouri.  Her husband was King Tepol’loni, and her son Amal’ahta.  Madoc when he reached America, espoused her cause, and succeeded in restoring her to her throne and empire.—­Southey, Madoc (1805).