P. 137. Acosta: Joseph de Acosta, _Historia naturale e morale delle Indie_, Venice, 1596. I have used this Italian translation; the original work appeared in 1590.—Demons at work in oracles: bk. v. ch. 9; in magic: ch. 25. P. 138. Demon in Brazil: Voss, _Theol. Gent._ i. ch. 8.—Pagan worship in the Florentine and Roman Academies: Voigt, _Wiederbelebung d. klass. Altertums_, ii. p. 239 (2nd ed.); Hettner, _Ital. Studien_, p. 174.—On the conception of the antique gods in the earlier Middle Ages, see Gruppe, § 4.—Thomas Aquinas: _Summa theol._ P. ii. 2, Q. 94, art. 4.—Curious and typical of the mediaeval way of reasoning is the idea of seeking prototypes of the Christian history of salvation in pagan mythology. See v. Eicken, _Gesch. u. System d. mittelalt. Weltanschauung_ (Stuttg. 1887), p. 648, and (with more detail) F. Piper, _Mythologie u. Symbolik d. christl. Kunst_ (Weimar, 1847-51), i. p. 143; comp. also Gruppe, § 8 foll. Good instances are the myths in the _Speculum humanae salvationis_, chs. 3 and 24. P. 139. On Hebraism in general, see Gruppe, § 19 and § 24 foll.; on Huet, § 28. Nevertheless, Huet operates with demonology in connexion with the oracles (_Dem. evang._ ii. 9, 34, 4). P. 140. On Natalis Comes, see Gruppe, § 19. In bk. i. ch. 7, Natalis Comes gives an account of the origin of antiquity’s conceptions of the gods; it has quite a naturalistic turn. Nevertheless, we find in ch. 16 a remark which shows that he embraced demonology in its crudest form; compare also the theory set forth in ch. 10. His interpretations of myths are collected in bk. x.—On Bacon, see Gruppe, § 22. Typhoeus-myth: introduct. to _De sapientia veterum._—Alchemistic interpretations: Gedike, _Verm. Schriften_, p. 78; Gruppe, § 30. Of the works quoted by Gedike, I have consulted Faber’s _Panchymicum_ (Frankf. 1651) and Toll’s Fortuita (Amsterd. 1687). Faber has only some remarks on the matter in bk. i. ch. 5; by Toll the alchemistic interpretation is carried through. Gedike quotes, moreover, a work by Suarez de Salazar, which must date from the sixteenth century; according to Jöcher (iv. 1913) it only exists in MS., and I do not know where Gedike got his reference.—Thomas: _Summa_, P. ii. 2, Q. 172, arts. 5 and 6.