Maya--Natural Treacheries--Misleaders--Glamour--Lorelei--Chinese Mermaid--Transformations--Swan Maidens--Pigeon Maidens--The Seal-skin--Nudity--Teufelsee--Gohlitsee--Japanese Siren--Dropping Cave--Venusberg--Godiva--Will-o'-Wisp--Holy Fräulein--The Forsaken Merman--The Water-Man--Sea Phantom--Sunken Treasures--Suicide Chapter X. Darkness. Shadows--Night Deities--Kobolds--Walpurgisnacht--Night as Abettor of Evil-doers--Nightmare--Dreams--Invisible Foes--Jacob and his Phantom--Nott--The Prince of Darkness--The Brood of Midnight--Second-Sight--Spectres of Souter Fell--The Moonshine Vampyre--Glamour--Glam and Grettir--A-Story of Dartmoor Chapter XI. Disease. The Plague Phantom--Devil-dances--Destroying Angels--Ahriman in Astrology--Saturn--Satan and Job--Set--The Fatal Seven--Yakseyo-- The Singhalese Pretraya--Reeri--Maha Sohon--Morotoo--Luther on Disease-demons--Gopolu--Madan--Cattle-demon in Russia--Bihlweisen --The Plough Chapter XII. Death. The Vendetta of Death--Teoyaomiqui--Demon of Serpents--Death on the Pale Horse--Kali--War-gods--Satan as Death--Death-beds-- Thanatos--Yama--Yimi--Towers of Silence--Alcestis--Herakles, Christ, and Death--Hell--Salt--Azraël--Death and the Cobbler-- Dance of Death--Death as Foe and as Friend Part III. Chapter I. Decline of Demons. The Holy Tree of Travancore--The growth of Demons in India, and their decline--The Nepaul Iconoclast--Moral Man and unmoral Nature--Man's physical and mental migrations--Heine's 'Gods in Exile'--The Goban Saor--Master Smith--A Greek caricature of the Gods--The Carpenter v. Deity and Devil--Extermination of the Were-wolf--Refuges of Demons--The Giants reduced to Little People--Deities and Demons returning to nature Chapter II. Generalisation of Demons. The Demons' bequest to their conquerors--Nondescripts--Exaggerations of Tradition--Saurian Theory of Dragons--The Dragon not primitive in Mythology--Monsters of Egyptian, Iranian, Vedic, and Jewish Mythologies--Turner's Dragon--Della Bella--The Conventional Dragon Chapter III. The Serpent. The beauty of the Serpent--Emerson on ideal forms--Michelet's thoughts on the viper's head--Unique characters of the Serpent--The Monkey's horror of Snakes--The Serpent protected by superstition--Human defencelessness against its subtle powers--Dubufe's picture of the Fall of Man Chapter IV. The Worm. An African Serpent-drama in America--The Veiled Serpent--The Ark of the Covenant--Aaron's Rod--The Worm--An Episode on the Dii Involuti--The Serapes--The Bambino at Rome--Serpent-transformations Chapter V. Apophis. The Naturalistic Theory of Apophis--The Serpent of Time--Epic of the Worm--The Asp of Melite--Vanquishers of Time--Nachash-Beriach --The Serpent-Spy--Treading on Serpents Chapter VI. The Serpent in India.