The Kankato na--The Vedic Serpents not worshipful--Ananta and Sesha--The Healing Serpent--The guardian of treasures--Miss Buckland's theory--Primitive rationalism--Underworld plutocracy--Rain and lightning--Vritra--History of the word 'Ahi'--The Adder--Zohak--A Teutonic Laokoon Chapter VII. The Basilisk. The Serpent's gem--The Basilisk's eye--Basiliscus mitratus--House-snakes in Russia and Germany--King-snakes--Heraldic Dragon--Henry III.--Melusina--The Laidley Worm--Victorious Dragons--Pendragon--Merlin and Vortigern--Medicinal dragons 361 Chapter VIII. The Dragon's Eye. The Eye of Evil--Turner's Dragons--Cloud-phantoms--Paradise and the Snake--Prometheus and Jove--Art and Nature--Dragon forms: Anglo-Saxon, Italian, Egyptian, Greek, German--The modern conventional Dragon Chapter IX. The Combat. The pre-Munchausenite world--The Colonial Dragon--Io's journey--Medusa--British Dragons--The Communal Dragon--Savage Saviours--A Mimac helper--The Brutal Dragon--Woman protected--The Saint of the Mikados Chapter X. The Dragon-slayer. Demi-gods--Alcestis--Herakles--The Ghilghit Fiend--Incarnate deliverer of Ghilghit--A Dardistan Madonna--The religion of Atheism--Resuscitation of Dragons--St. George and his Dragon--Emerson and Ruskin on George--Saintly allies of the Dragon Chapter XI. The Dragon's Breath. Medusa--Phenomena of recurrence--The Brood of Echidna and their survival--Behemoth and Leviathan--The Mouth of Hell--The Lambton Worm--Ragnar--The Lambton Doom--The Worm's Orthodoxy--The Serpent, Superstition, and Science Chapter XII. Fate. Doré's 'Love and Fate'--Moira and Moiræ--The 'Fates' of Æschylus--Divine absolutism surrendered--Jove and Typhon--Commutation of the Demon's share--Popular fatalism--Theological fatalism--Fate and Necessity--Deification of Will--Metaphysics, past and present Part IV. Chapter I. Diabolism. Dragon and Devil distinguished--Dragons' wings--War in Heaven-- Expulsion of Serpents--Dissolution of the Dragon--Theological origin of the Devil--Ideal and Actual--Devil Dogma--Debasement of ideal persons--Transmigration of phantoms Chapter II. The Second Best. Respect for the Devil--Primitive Atheism--Idealisation--Birth of new gods--New gods diabolised--Compromise between new gods and old--Foreign deities degraded--Their utilisation Chapter III. Ahriman, the Divine Devil. Mr. Irving's impersonation of Superstition--Revolution against pious privilege--Doctrine of 'Merits'--Saintly immorality in India--A Pantheon turned Inferno--Zendavesta on Good and Evil-- Parsî Mythology--The Combat of Ahriman with Ormuzd--Optimism-- Parsî Eschatology--Final Restoration of Ahriman Chapter IV. Viswámitra, the Theocratic Devil.