The two religions face to face..................................217 Ovid reciting his “Metamorphoses”...............................219 Druidic worship suspended by the Romans.........................220 “Miserere mei, Jesu”............................................222 Perkunos, Pikollos, and Potrympos...............................224 Puscatus,--a kind-hearted god ..................................226 Monstrous reptiles accompany the gods to Germany................227 He let his heavy mace fall upon a little town...................238 The blacksmiths of Ilmarinnen...................................239 Marietta appeared in their midst................................245 “Do you think I am a man to be taken in ?”......................251 Horse-head, a la mode...........................................253 The Undines mingled with the Tritons and the Naiads.............258 Have transferred their Olympus to the Brocken...................259 The Olympus of the North........................................263 Able to see without being seen .................................266 Dance of the white fairies .....................................269 The black fairies personify Nightmare ..........................271 An important personage with a will of his own ..................272 Enormous toads are posted about.as watchmen.....................279 Elementary spirits of the water.................................283 Imaginary music ................................................288 The nix with the harp ..........................................289 Schoolmaster’s son who had fallen in love with one of them......291 He thought he saw a pale form arise from the waters.............294 He rose suddenly and fled to another room ......................295 The steward whispered some words in her ear ....................297 Niord, the Scandinavian god ....................................299 This creature is Nixcobt........................................300 The Vintner is hanged, and Nixcobt laughs heartily..............302 Four Prussian soldiers watching the water ......................305 The Zotterais protected sheep ..................................309 The master has nothing to do....................................315 Prefer to remember the Kobold a cheerful household companion....317 The Zotterais as fond of stables as the Kobolds of kitchens.....319 They are naturally easily tired ................................321 The Killecroffs are children of the Devil ......................322 His nurse has to be reinforced by two goats and a cow...........324 The great Reformer, Dr. Martin Luther ..........................326 The fall of Killecroff .........................................331 Giants and dwarfs...............................................335