Samodivi
(See Slavs.) St. Martin was never married, but he appears to have exercised a most extraordinary fascination over women: Samothracian Mysteries: (See Greece.) and in fact divers scandalous stories are told in this relation, Samovile: (See Slavs.) some of them implicating various courtly dames of the Samoyeds: (See Siberia.) French nobility of the Empire. As a philosopher St.
Martin found a host of disciples among his contemporaries, these gradually forming themselves almost into a distinct sect, and, as observed before, acquiring the name of "Martinistes." What, then, was the teaching of their leader ? and what the nature of the tenets promulgated in his voluminous writings? It is difficult to give an epitome in Samuel, Mother: (See England.)