III. Liternture. — The classical descriptions may be fouml in Aristot. Aiiiin. ix, 13 [14 ed. Schneid.] ; Solin. S3 ; /Elian. .1 nim. iii. 23 ; Pliny, //. A*, x, 16, 28. Modern authorities are, IJochart, I/ieroz. iii, 85 sq. ; Oedmann, tSiimml, v, .')8 s(|. ; Kitto, I'ict. Bible, note on Lev. xi, 19 yV/y.*. //int. of I'lili'Sl. p. 40,") sq. ; Tristram, A'«/. Hist, of the liihle, p. 242 si). ; Wood, Bible A nimals, p. 478 sq. , Thomson, I^diid (tiul Bool; i, 503 sq. ; and most books of Oriental travel. .See Hikd.
Stork, CiiAHi.Ks AudLSTis G., a Lutheran clergy- man, was born near Ilelmstiidt, Duchy of Brunswick, June Ki, 17()4, and was confirmed at the age of fifteen. He entered the University of Ilelmstiidt in 1782, where he retnained for three years, and in 1785 iiecame tutor to the children of a iioMcinan in lladcnbiirg. After a year he Ix-came teaclier in a family near Uremcn, where he stayed for two years, when he was called to a field of laijor in America. His ortliiiation soon took place, and he sailed for this country, arriving June 27, 1788. On liis arrival in North Carolina he was elected pastor of three congregations— Salisbury Cwlicre lie took up his abode), the ( )rgan, and Pine churciies. He also estab- lished other congregations in Howan, Lincoln, and Ca- barra-M counties, and paid visits to churches in South Carolina, Tennessee, anil Virginia, which were without minisUTs. His death occurred March 20, 1831. IMr. Stork was a highly educated man, and had the reputa- tion of being an eloquent and ellVciive preacher in the (Jerman language, ills library was luMjupathed in part to the Theological Seminary at (Jelty.siiurg, and the re- maimlcr to the (.'oll<giatc Institute, Mount Pleasant, N. C. He was nlways, when present, chosen president (if the synod. Sec .Spraguc, Annuls of the Amer, J'ul- pit, ix, 88.
Storks, Lkvi. a minister of the Jlethodist Episco- pal Church, w.is born at Milford, Del., Dec. 1 1, 1796, but % was brought np in Salisbury, Md. He was received on trial in the Philadelphia Conference in 1S24. He be- came supernumerary in 1850, but in 1851 resumed his labors, contiiuiing in them until within a few days of his deatli, Oct. 1, 1853. The private life of Mr. Storks, his social intercourse, his public ministry, were all calculated to impress the conviction that he had exalted concep- tions of Christian dignity and ministerial responsibility. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1854, p. 341.
Storr, GofTLOB Christian, doctor of theology, professor of divinity at Tubingen, consistorial counsel- lor, and first minister to the court at Stuttgart, was born at Stuttgart in 1746, and died at the same place in 1805. The labors of Storr contributed more, perhaps, than those of almost any other man to stem the tide of ne- ology, which at one time threatened to deluge Ger- many. Vexed with the wild and baseless speculations of the Rationalists, he early determined to build his faith on the pure Word of God ; and in his early youth devoted himself for a long time to its exclusive study. Thus he became mighty in the Scriptures, as the Ele- mentcn-y Course of Biblical Theolofiij, by him and Flatt, translated into English by Prof. Schmucker, abundant- ly shows. Other works of Storr, of great value, and eminently subsidiary to his great purpose of recalling the educated mind of German}' to the proper study and just estimate of revelation, are, Commentary on the Epistle to the Hebrews: — Treatise on the True Ob- ject of Chris fs Death: — On the Object of the Evangel- ical History, and the Epistles of John: — New Defence of the Revelation of John: — and Opuscula Acadeinica, several of which have been translated into English, and published in the Biblical Rejtository, the Princeton Repertory, etc. He also helped to advance Hebrew learning by his Observations pertaininff to Hebrew Anal- ogy and Syntax,
Storr Junkare, in Lapp mythology, is the god of hunting and fishing, who was highly venerated because those pursuits afforded the principal means of livelihood to the peoples of the frozen North. Storr was probably the only divinity whose worship was in any degree general ; that of other gods being restricted, in each case, to a single family or clan, as a rule. liough stones were brought into something of artistic shape, and were erected to serve as images of this God. When sacri- fices were offered to him. it was customary to smear the image with the blood. — Vullmer, WOrtcrb. d. Mythol. s. v.
Storrs, Charles Backus, an eminent Presby- terian minister, was born at Longmeadow, ]\Iass„ May 15, 1794. He pursued his preparatory studies private- ly, and at Munson Acatiemy ; was a member of Prince- ton College, but did not graduate, owing to ill-health ; was licensed to preach by the Long Island Presbytery in 1813; graduated at Andover Theological Seminary in 1820, and proceeded immediately to South Carolina, where he was ordained as an evangelist by the Charles- ton Congregational Association, B^eb. 2, 1821 ; was occu- pied as a missionarj" in the states of South Carolina and Georgia for a year and a half, when ill-health again compelled liim to rest; was stationed from 1822 to 1828 as a missionary at Ilavenna, the county seat of I'ortage, where he gathered and built up a large church; ac- cepted the professorship of theology in the Western Reserve College in 1828, and the presidency in 1831. He died Sept. 15, 1833. The only production of Mr. Storrs's pen was his Address on the Occasion of his In- duction to the Presidency of the Western Reserve College (1831). He was possessed of rich mental endowments, which eminently ipialilied him for the president's cliair and the pulpit. Sec Spraguc, .1 nnals of the A iner. Pul- pit, iv, 487 ; Allibone, JJict. of Brit, and A mer. A uthors, 8. v. ; A mer. Quar. Reg. vi, 84. (J. L. S.)