'I am the feeblest of the Magyars,' said Botond, 'but I will kill thee;' and he performed his word, having previously given a proof of the feebleness of his arm by striking his battle-axe through the brazen gate, making a hole so big that a child of five years old could walk through it." _Myself_.

Of what religion were the old Hungarians?
_Hungarian_.

They had some idea of a Supreme Being, whom they called Isten, which word is still used by the Magyars for God; but their chief devotion was directed to sorcerers and soothsayers, something like the Schamans of the Siberian steppes.

They were converted to Christianity chiefly through the instrumentality of Istvan or Stephen, called after his death St.Istvan, who ascended the throne in the year one thousand.
He was born in heathenesse, and his original name was Vojk: he was the first kiraly, or king of the Magyars.

Their former leaders had been called fejedelmek, or dukes.