Huns
3 of the 7 encyclopedias on this shelf carry an entry for Huns. Both are reproduced below, so you can see where they agree and where they differ.
Aiton's Encyclopedia (1910)
a wild, nomadic people of northern Asia. They are regarded as a branch of the Mongolians, who invaded the Chinese Empire about 200 B. C. The Great Wall of China was built to keep them out. They appeared in authentic history about 375 A. D. Under Attila, their leader, called the Scourge of God, they established an immense empire in western Asia. They drove the Goths west of the Danube and penetrated Europe as far as Chalons, France. Here a terrific battle was fought, lasting several days; here they are said to have lost the improbable number of 300,000 warriors. They were defeated and retired eastward. After the death of their great leader they disappeared gradually from European history. They are described by Roman writers as a short-legged, stout race, with strongly knit limbs, thick necks, and black eyes. The men were without beards, the women without beauty. They had no desire to be under a roof, but spent their time in the saddle. Even their military conferences were held on horseback. They never tilled the soil. They are not to be confounded with the Hungarians, who came into Europe several centuries later. See Attila It is at least certain, that the Magyars of Arpad, who are the immediate ancestors of the bulk of the modern Hungarians, and who conquered the country which bears the name of Hungary in A. D. 889, were of the same stock of mankind as the Huns of Attila, if they did not belong to the same subdivision of that stock. Nor is there any improbability in the tradition that after Attila's death many of his warriors remained in Hungary, and that their descendants afterwards joined the Huns of Arpad in their career of conquest. It is certain that Attila made Hungary the seat of his empire.--Creasy, Decisive Battles.
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
the name given to several tated the Roman Empire in the 5th Tan century. They inhabited the plains of Tartary, near the boundaries of China, many centuries before the Christian era. It was in order to put a stop to the continual aggressions of the Huns that the great wall of China was built; and separate nations, named respectively the after this the Huns split up into two first-mentioned went W. to the Volga, Northern and the Southern Huns. The where they encountered the Alanni, whom they defeated . Here the Huns remained for about two centuries; but, under the Emperor Valens, they crossed the Bosphorus; afterward invading the death of Attila the Huns broke up Rome, under their leader Attila. After back by the Goths beyond the Tanais. into separate tribes, and were driven The Hungarians of the present day are the descendants of Huns, who once more applied to the Germans by their oppoimmigrated into Europe. The name was nents in the European War (1914-18). Norfolk, England, on the Wash, 18 miles HUNSTANTON , a watering-place of N. E. of King's Lynn. It has a broad beach of firm sand, and a splendidly decdating from the Tudor period, but orated church ( 1330). Hunstanton Hall, seat of Sir Roger L'Estrange. greatly injured by fire in 1583, was the writer and historian; born in New Or-
An Encyclopaedia of Occultism (1920)
The ancient historians credited the Huns with a monstrous origin. They were often called children of the devil, because it was said that they were born of a union between demons and hideous witches, the latter cast out of their own county by Philimer, king of the Goths, and his army. The old writers state that the Huns were of horrible deformity, and could not be mistaken for anything but the children of demons. Besoldus, following Servin, claims that their name of Huns comes from a Celtic or barbaric word signifying great magicians. Many stories are told of their magic prowess, and of their raising spectres to assist them in battle.