RED CROSS KNIGHT 
 
 
Una; and thus holiness is allied to the 
Oneness of Truth (1590). 
 
  Red Hand of Ulster. 
  Calverley, of Calverley, Yorkshire. Wal- 
ter Calverley, Esq., in 1605, murdered two 
of his children, and attempted to murder 
his wife and a child "at nurse." This 
became the subject of The Yorkshire 
Tragedy. In consequence of these mur- 
ders, the family is required to wear "the 
bloody hand." 
  The Holt family, of Lancashire, has a 
similar tradition connected with their coat 
armor. 
 
  Red Knight (The,) Sir Perimo'n~s, one 
of the four brothers who kept the passages 
leading to Castle Perilous.  In the al- 
legory of Gareth, this knight represents 
noon, and was the third brother. Night, 
the eldest born, was slain by Sir Gareth; 
the Green Knight, which represents the 
young day-spring, was overcome, but not 
slain; and the Red Knight, being over- 
come, was spared also. The reason is this: 
darkness is slain, but dawn is only over- 
come by the stronger light of noon, and 
noon decays into the evening twilight. 
Tennyson in his Gareth and Lynette, calls 
Sir Perimon&s "Meridies," or "Noonday 
Sun." The Latin name is not consistent 
with a British tale.-Sir T. Malory, His- 
tory of Prince Arthur, i. 129 (1470); Ten- 
nyson, Idylls. 
 
  Red Knight of the Red Lands (The), 
Sir Ironside. "He had the strength of 
seven men, and every day his strength 
went on increasing till noon." This knight 
kept the Lady Lion&s captive in Castle 
Perilous. In the allegory of Sir Gareth, 
Sir Ironside represents death, and the 
captive lady "the Bride," or Church tri- 
umphant. Sir Gareth combats with Night, 
 
 
Morn, Noon, and Evening, or fights the 
fight of faith, and then overcomes the last 
enemy, which is death, when he marries 
the lady, or is received into the Church, 
which is "the Lamb's Bride." Tennyson, 
in his Gareth and Lynette, makes the com- 
bat with the Red Knight ("Mors," or 
"Death") to be a single stroke; but the 
History says it is endured from morn to 
noon, and from noon to night-in fact, 
that man's whole life is a contest with 
moral and physical death.-Sir T. Malory, 
History of Prince Arthur, i. 134-137 (1470); 
Tennyson, Idylls (" Gareth and Lynette "). 
 
  Red Pipe. The Great Spirit long ago 
called the Indians together, and, stand- 
ing on the red pipe-stone rock, broke off 
a piece, which he made into a pipe, and 
smoked, letting the smoke exhale to the 
four quarters. He then told the Indians 
that the red pipe-stone was their flesh, 
and they must use the red pipe when they 
made peace; and that when they smoked 
it, the war-club and scalping-knife must 
not be touched. Having so spoken, the 
Great Spirit was received up into the 
clouds.-Indian Mytholoqy. 
  The red pipe has blown its fumes of peace 
and war to the remotest corners of the conti- 
nent.  It visited every warrior, and passed 
through its reddened stem the irrevocable oath 
of war and desolation. Here, too, the peace- 
breathing calumet was born, and fringed with 
eagle's quills, which has shed its thrilling fumes 
over the land, and soothed the fury of the re- 
lentless savage.-Catlin, Letters on ... the North 
Americans, ii. 160. 
 
  Red Ridinghood (Little), a child with 
a red cloak, who went to carry cakes to 
her grandmother. A wolf placed itself in 
the grandmother's bed, and when the child 
remarked upon the size of its eyes, ears, 
and nose, replied it was the better to see, 
hear, and smell the little grandchild. "But, 
grandmamma," said the child, " what a 
 
 
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