The Wild Hunt--Euphemisms--Schimmelreiter--Odinwald--Pied Piper
--Lyeshy--Waldemar's Hunt--Palne Hunter--King Abel's Hunt--Lords
of Glorup--Le Grand Veneur--Robert le Diable--Arthur--Hugo--Herne
--Tregeagle--Der Freischütz--Elijah's chariot--Mahan Bali--Déhak
--Nimrod--Nimrod's defiance of Jehovah--His Tower--Robber Knights
--The Devil in Leipzig--Olaf hunting pagans--Hunting-horns--Raven
--Boar--Hounds--Horse--Dapplegrimm--Sleipnir--Horse-flesh--The
mare Chetiya--Stags--St. Hubert--The White Lady--Myths of Mother
Rose--Wodan hunting St. Walpurga--Friar Eckhardt
Chapter XXVII.
Le Bon Diable.
The Devil repainted--Satan a divine agent--St. Orain's
heresy--Primitive universalism--Father Sinistrari--Salvation of
demons--Mediæval sects--Aquinas--His prayer for Satan--Popular
antipathies--The Devil's gratitude--Devil defending
innocence--Devil against idle lords--The wicked ale-wife--Pious
offenders punished--Anachronistic Devils--Devils turn to
poems--Devil's good advice--Devil sticks to his word--His love
of justice--Charlemagne and the Serpent--Merlin--His prison of
Air--Mephistopheles in Heaven
Chapter XXVIII.
Animalism.
Celsus on Satan--Ferocities of inward nature--The Devil
of Lust--Celibacy--Blue Beards--Shudendozi--A lady in
distress--Bahirawa--The Black Prince--Madana Yaksenyo--Fair
fascinators--Devil of Jealousy--Eve's jealousy--Noah's wife--How
Satan entered the Ark--Shipwright's Dirge--The Second Fall--The
Drunken curse--Solomon's Fall--Cellar Devils--Gluttony--The Vatican
haunted--Avarice--Animalised Devils--Man-shaped Animals
Chapter XXIX.
Thoughts and Interpretations 421
PART I.
DEMONOLATRY.
CHAPTER I.
DUALISM.
Origin of Deism--Evolution from the far to the near--Illustrations
from witchcraft--The primitive Pantheism--The dawn of Dualism.
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