This belief lingered for a long time amid the German forests, as also the superstition about water spirits. […] The body is one hundred and twenty-five feet long; and the fore-paws extend about fifty feet more. […] The Fates had decreed that Troy should not be taken as long as Hector lived. […] Isis, after a long search, found his body, which she laid in a monument in an island near Memphis. […] The word is derived from the old Breton man, stone; and hir, long.