[Transcriber's note: This etext was produced from Weird Tales April 1929. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] "Gorgons, and Hydras, and Chimeras--dire stories of Celæno and the Harpies--may reproduce themselves in the brain of superstition--_but they were there before_. They are transcripts, types--the archetypes are in us, and eternal. How else should the recital of that which we know in a waking sense to be false come to affect us at all? Is it that we naturally conceive terror from such objects, considered in their capacity of being able to inflict upon us bodily injury? Oh, least of …
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