Confederation of all the Northern Gods.--Freedom of Religion.--Christianity.--Miserere mei!--Homeric Enumeration.--Prussian, Slavic, and Finnish Deities.--The God of Cherries and the God of Bees.--A Silver Woman.--Ilmarinnen’s Wedding Song.--A Skeleton God.--Yaga-Baba’s Pestle and Mortar.--Preparation for Battle.--The Little Chapel on the Hill.--The Signal for the Attack.--Jesus and Mary.....215 X. Marietta and the Sweet-briar.--Esus and Jesus.--Amalgam.--A Neophyte.--Prohibition to eat Horseflesh.--Bishops in Arms.--Interruption.--Come Home, my Good Friend!--Prussia and the Myths of the Middle Ages.--Tybilinus, the Black God.--The little Blue Flower.....243 XI. Elementary Spirits of Air, Fire, and Water.--Sylphs, their Amusements and Domestic Arrangements.--Little Queen Mab.--Will-o’-the- Wisps.--White Elves and Black Elves.--True Causes of Natural Somnambulism.--The Wind’s Betrothed.--Fire-damp.--Master Haemmerling.--The Last of the Gnomes.....261 XII. Elementary Spirits of the Water.--Petrarch at Cologne.--Divine Judgment by Water.--Nixen and Undines.--A Furlough till Ten o’clock.--The White footed Undine.--Mysteries on the Rhine.--The Court of the Great Nichus.--Nixcobt, the Messenger of the Dead.--His Funny Tricks.--I go in Search of an Undine.....281 XIII. Familiar Spirits.--Butzemann.--The Good Frau Holle.--Kobolds.--A Kobold in the Cook’s Employ.--Zot-terais and the Little White Ladies.--The Killecroffs, the Devil’s Children.--White Angels.--Granted Wishes, a Fable.....307 XIV. Giants and Dwarfs.--Duel between Ephesim and Gromme-lund.--Court Dwarfs and Little Dwarfs.--Ymer’s Sons.--The Invisible Reapers.--Story of the Dwarf Kreiss and the Giant Quadragaat.--How the Giants came to serve the Dwarfs.....333 XV. Wizards and the Bewitched.--The Journey of Asa-Thor and his Companions.--The Inn with the Five Passages.--Skrymner.--A Lost Glove found again.--Arrival at the Great City of Utgard.--Combat between Thor and the King’s Nurse.--Frederick Barbarossa and the Kyffhâuser.--Teutonia! Teutonia!--What became of the Ancient Gods.--Venus and the good Knight Tannhâuser.--Jupiter on Rabbit Island.--A Modern God.....369 XVI. Women as Missionaries, Women as Prophets, Strong Women, and Serpent Women.--Children’s Myths.--Godmothers.--Fairies.--The Magic Wand and the Broomstick.--The Lady of Kynast.--The World of the Dead, the World of Ghosts, and the World of Shadows.--Myths of Animals.....397 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. Father Rhine....................................................003 The impassive historian ........................................004 Vast forests as old as the world ...............................005 The first pioneers..............................................007 The Celts were a people from India..............................009 What happy people scholars are..................................010 A horrible custom...............................................019