As powerful, indeed more powerful over men, is the terrible Satan--_Devil_, _Evil One_. There are many names and shapes. This monster was once (according to the superstition) chained down in hell-fire, for having raised a rebellion against Jah, who, however, let him loose again, and gave him wings to fly from his fiery prison to the world, where he should wage war with Jah, in a covert way, by his craft drawing away mankind from Jah to his worship and to his designs; that, however, he should never prevail to overthrow Jah, and the only result would be to increase the number of the countless devils of low degree already in Hell, by adding to them nearly the whole human race!--for to that torment all go who do not worship in spirit and in truth, according to the superstition. This awful strife between Satan and Jah always proceeds. The Priests say that, for "some wise purpose," Jah suffers Satan to succeed in his snares; and his victims continually fall into the everlasting place of Fire, prepared for the devil and his victims. The Priests say that this wholesale destruction of mankind was a thing predetermined by Jah, and that he created the Devil to accomplish the work; but they do not explain why the torments should be everlasting; as men are themselves short-lived, one would think a reasonable superstition might have limited the fire-torture to, say, twice the length of mortal life! Our _Literati_ will readily recognise some parts of this horrible superstition--perhaps the main features, as Oriental--going back to the dimmest dawn of tradition, and to the early and grotesque forms of the human imagination, dark and uninstructed. The _Hell_, however, is a terrific expansion of the horrible, suited to these Strange Barbarians. Besides these great deities, there are Arch-angels, Angels, Saints male and female, Spirits good and bad--the latter _Imps_ of Satan (whatever the word may mean), who enter into human beings, and take on the human form: in this disguise, called Ghosts, Wizards, Bogies, Witches. However, good people can tell these devilish _Imps_, and avoid them (so they be _good_, that is, true worshippers of the Idols of the Superstition); for the smell of brimstone sticks to them, and the tail and cleft-hoof--inseparable from devil-imps--will always show somewhere to _the good_. But, if unawares the Imps catch them, they are only to say _Christ_, or _Jehovah_, or call on some Saint, and the Imp will at once vanish like a vapor! It will be seen that this Superstition is as populous with gods and spirits as are any in the East, and some of the forms more frightful and ridiculous.