Sjobu-no-sit is a martial and religious festival in which the male youth of Japan engage; the Kalamus festival.
Sjugo-nitsi Adsugi Kaju Kurahi is a Japanese popular festival, observed on the fifteenth day of the first month, and in connection with which it is custom- ary to serve a favorite dish of beans.
Sju-go-zin is a subordinate or adjunct deity of the Japanese mythology, who, in the form of a fox, accom- panies the moon-god in his travels. He was highly venerated, but even more greatly feared. His form, however, was changed, and he now enjoys the high re- gard of the people as a protector, though he sometimes appears as the attendant spirit of Inari as well. In the latter character he is honored in the form of a fox, and his image of clay is sold at the annual fairs which faU on the days of the Inari festival, to serve as the patron of the common people. It maj' be found in every house and in the little temples throughout the land. The be- lief is still common that the foxes assemble once a year in some unknown place where a flame bursting from the earth foretells the fruitfulness of the year. — VoUmer, Worfeib. d. Mythul. s. v.
Skade, in Norse mj^thology, was the wife of Njord and daughter of the giant Thjasse. She lives in her father's dwelling, Thrymheim, and hunts the wild boar with bow and arrow as she rides on snow-shoes down the mountain. See Norse Mythology.
Skalds (or Scalds) were the poets, reciters, and singers, and also the historiographers, of the ancient Scandinavians. Like the Celtic bards, they went before the heroes to battle with inspiring war-crj', and ob- served the warriors' deeds, recounted them in song, and transmitted their fame to succeeding generations. As the insurers of posthumous fame and as divinely in- spired wise-men and prophets, they were in high es- teem at the courts of princes. They were known throughout Norway, Sweden, Iceland, Denmark, and the north of German}'. The legends of the Edda, pre- served for us by Snorre Sturleson, were the work of these Skalds. — VoUmer, Worterh. d. Mythol. s. v.
Skanda, in Hindil mythology, was the child of Rudra (Siva) and the sisters Ganga and Uma, the for- mer of whom was the consort of all the gods, the latter
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of Riidra alone. Skaiida was taken in charge at his birth by the stars Kartigas, who were six nymphs, and thus obtained his other name, Kariikeya. He was washed and nourished and became so brijflit that he eclipsed the brilliancy of the sun. He received six heads and twelve arms, anil was appointed leader of the heavenly armies when tliey should march against the evil daemons and spirits of the underworld. Nu- merous pagodas were erected to him in India, in which he was always represented as accompanied by his con- sorts Uevanei and Yelliamen. The name 8kanda sig- nilies the rapidly conqutring one. — Yollmer, WOrttrb. d. Mythul. s. V.
Skapidur was one of the celebrated skilled dwarfs, in Norse mythology, who came from Swains llaugi to Orwanga on Jornwall.
Skatalundr, in Norse mythology, was the grove where Odin caused the beautiful Brynhiliiur to fall into a magic sleep and encased her with shields, leav- ing her in that condition until Sigurd wrought her de- liverance.
Skaugul, in Norse mythology, was one of the bat- tle-virgins, the beautiful Valkyrias.
Skeggoeld, in Norse mythology, was a Yalkyria. The name signilies time of axes.
Skeidbrimer was one of the asa-horses, in Norse mythology, on which the asas (excepting Thor, who walked) rode to the place of daily judgment.
Skelton, Philip, a worthy and learned clergyman of Ireland, was born in the parish of Derryaghy, near Lisburn, February, 1707, and educated at Trinity Col- lege, Dublin. Soon after graduation he went to reside with his brother John at Dundalk, and was ordained deacon for the cure of Newtown-Butler, Fermanagh Co., about 1729. This, after two years, he resigned and re- turned to his brother's, where he remained until 1732, when he settled on the curacy of Monaghan, in the dio- cese of Clogher. In 1750 the living of Pettigoe, Coun- ty Donegal, was given to him; and in 1759 he received the living of Devenish, F'ermanagh Co., worth about three hundred pounds a year. In 176(5 he removed to Fintona, in the County of Tyrone, from which, in 1780, he took his tinal leave and removed to Dublin to end his days. He died May 4, 1787. Mr. Skelton was somewhat eccentric, but was a very charitable, unas- suming, and useful minister. He publisheil, A Vindica- tion of the Bishop of Winchester (1736) : — iSome Propo- sals for the Revival of Christianity (1736) : — Dissei'ta- tion on the Constitution, etc., of a Petty Jury (1737) : — Necessity of Tillage and Granaries (1741): — Truth in a Mask {17-13) -.— The Candid Reader {\7U): — The Chevalier's Hopes (1745) : — Deism Revealed (1749, 2 vols. 8vo; 2d ed. 1751, 2 vols. 12mo) : — The Consultation (1753) : — Discourses, Controveisial and Practical (1754, 2 vols.). He published his works by subscription in 1770, 5 vols. 8vo ; in 1784 vol. vi, and in 1786 vol. vii; also in the same year A Catechism. See AUibone, Diet. of Brit, and A mer. A uthors, s. v. ; Darling, Cyclop. Bib- Hog. a. v.; IjOndon Monthly Review, Due. ll^'l; London 6''eH^ i/uY/. Ixxxi, 104 ; Ixxxii, 349; lxxxvii,58; South- ey [K.], lAfe and Correspondence, ch. x:txii; Chalmers, liiog. Dirt. s. v.