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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
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Frontispiece
p. vi
Demonolatrous Ceremonies of the Old Inhabitants of Haiti. After Picart
p. 11
Human Sacrifices Among the Greeks. After an ancient cameo in Berlin
p. 12
A Hind Substituted for Iphigenia. After a Pompeian fresco
p. 13
Apapi (Apophis) and Atmu. After Rawlinson
p. 16
Forms of Taourt. After Rawlinson
Seth. After Brugsch
The Soul Visiting the Mummy. From the Ani Papyrus
Set Teaching the King the Art of War. After Erman
p. 18
The Weighing of the Heart in the Hall of Truth. After Lepsius's reproduction of the Turin papyrus
p. 21
The Abode of Bliss. After Lepsius's reproduction of the Turin papyrus
p. 25
Xisuthrus (the Babylonian Noah) in the Ark. After an ancient Babylonian cylinder. Reproduced from Smith
p. 32
Wall Decorations of the Royal Palace at Nineveh in Their Present State. After Place, reproduced from Lenormant
p. 33
Sacred Tree and Serpent. From an ancient Babylonian cylinder. After Smith
p. 35
The Tree of Life. Decorations on the embroidery of a royal mantle. British Museum
p. 36
Merodach Delivering the Moon-God from the Evil Spirits. From a Babylonian cylinder. Smith
p. 37
The Chaldean Trinity Blessing the Tree of Life. British Museum
p. 40
The Goddess Anna. Bas-relief in the British Museum
Fight Between Bel-Merodach and Tiamat. British Museum
p. 41
Evil Demons. British Museum
p. 43
Demon of the Southwest Wind. Statue in the Louvre. After Lenormant
p. 44
Nirgalli. British Museum. After Lenormant
p. 45
An Ancient Assyrian Bronze Tablet Representing the World in the Clutches of an Evil Demon. Collection of M. de Clercq. After Lenormant
p. 46
An Assyrian Cameo
p. 59
A Persian Cameo
Assyrian Cylinder
Sculptures on a Royal Tomb. Lenormant
p. 60
Bas-Relief of Persepolis. Lenormant
p. 61
The King Slaying a Unicorn. Bas-relief of Persepolis
p. 63
Saul and the Witch of Endor. After Schnorr von Carolsfeld
p. 68
Assyrian Goat Demons. Carvings on a boulder. After Lenormant
p. 69
The Brahman Trimurti. After Coleman
p. 75
Brahma. Fragment of a car. Musée Guimet
p. 76
Brahma and Suraswati. Reproduced from Hermann Göll
p. 77
Vishnu, Lakshmi, and Brahma. After a native illustration, reproduced from Hermann Göll
p. 78
The Matsya Avatar or Fish Incarnation. From Picart
p. 79
The Kurm Avatar or Tortoise Incarnation From Picart
The Varâha Avatar or Wild Boar Incarnation. From Picart
The Narasinha Avatar or Man-Lion Incarnation. From Picart
Lakshmi, the Goddess of Beauty. Musée Guimet
p. 80
Vishnu Narasinha. Fragment of a car. Musée Guimet
p. 81
Hanuman, the Monkey King, Building the Bridge Over the Strait Between India and Lanka. Reproduced from Hermann Göll
p. 82
The Vâmana Avatar or Dwarf Incarnation
p. 83
The Parashura Avatar, or Battle-Ax Incarnation
The Râma Chandra Avatar
The Krishna Avatar
The Monkey King Sugriva Fighting. Reproduced from Coleman
p. 84
Vishnu and Shri-Lakshmi as Râma Chandra and Sita After Their Happy Reunion. Reproduced from Coleman
p. 85
Hanuman Reciting His Adventures to Râma Chandra and Sita. Reproduced from Coleman
p. 86
Krishna Nursed by Devaki. Reproduced from Moore's Hindu Pantheon
p. 87
Krishna. Bronze statue, Musée Guimet
p. 88
Krishna, the Favorite of the Country Lasses of Gokula. Reproduced from Coleman
p. 89
Krishna's Adventures. Reproduced from Coleman
p. 90
The Battle Between the Kurus and Pandus on the Field of Kurukshetra. Reproduced from Wilkins
p. 91
Jagannath with His Two Companions. After Schlagintweit
p. 92
Shiva with Parvati. Musée Guimet
p. 93
Shiva-Trimurti. Musée Guimet
Shiva Dancing Surrounded by a Halo of Flames. Bronze Statue, Musée Guimet
p. 94
The Buddha Avatar or Vishnu's Incarnation as the Enlightened Teacher of Mankind. Reproduced from Picart
p. 95
The Kalki Avatar or the White-Horse Incarnation. From Picart
Shiva Worship. From Picart
Shiva and Parvati. From Göll
p. 96
Kali. After an Indian picture. From Schlagintweit
p. 97
Durga. Indian sculpture. From Schlagintweit
p. 98
mKha's Groma, the Tibetan Kali. Musée Guimet
p. 99
Kali-Durga in the Hindu Pantheon. From Wilkins
p. 100
Hari Hara. From Wilkins
p. 101
Ganesa. From Wilkins
p. 102
Agni. From Hermann Göll
Kama. From Wollheim da Fonceka
Shiva Slaying a Demon. From Wilkins
The Demon of Lightning. A Japanese temple statue
p. 106
The Demon of Thunder. A Japanese temple statue
p. 107
Mara's Army. Gandhara sculptures. Museum of Lahore. From Grünwedel
p. 110
Buddha, Tempted by Mara's Daughters. Gandhara sculptures. Reproduced from Grünwedel
p. 114
An Indian Wheel of Life. From L. E. Waddell's picture
p. 119
A Tibetan Wheel of Life. From Bastian
p. 121
A Japanese Wheel of Life. From Bastian
p. 123
Meifu, the Dark Tribunal. From Karma
p. 128
Kongo, the Sheriff. From a Japanese art print
p. 130
Emma, the Judge. From a Japanese art print
The Devil as a Monk. Japanese wood carving, Musée Guimet
p. 131
Oni-no-Nembutzu. After a wood carving in the author's possession
p. 132
Hono-Kuruma, the Cart of Hell. After an old Japanese painting
p. 133
Tibetan Devil's Altar. From Waddell
p. 134
Buddha Extending His Help to a Sufferer in Hell. From Karma
p. 136
The Christian Trinity, God Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Reproduced from Muther
p. 139
Asmodi, an Evil Spirit, Cast Out by Prayer. After Schnorr von Carolsfeld
p. 141
Heaven and Hell. After H. F., an unknown Old-German master
p. 144
The Holy Trinity in the Vatican. After Pietro Berrettini
p. 146
The Buddhist Trinity, the Buddha, the Dharma, the Sangha. Musée Gulmet
p. 147
The Trinity and Mary. After Lübke
p. 148
The Christian Trinity. From Bastian
p. 149
The Trinity of Salerno. Sketched by the artist of the Gartenlaube
p. 150
Jacob Böhme
p. 151
Vignette of Jacob Böhme's Book on the Threefold Life of Man
p. 152
The Three Principles. Frontispiece of Jacob Böhme's book
p. 153
Jesus Casting Out Devils. After Schnorr von Carolsfeld
p. 158
The Fiend, Sowing Tares Among the Wheat. From a German Picture-Bible
Dives Enjoying Life, and Lazarus Suffering. From a German Picture-Bible
p. 160
Dives Tormented in Hell. From a German Picture-Bible
Cast Into Outer Darkness Where There Shall be Weeping and Gnashing of Teeth. From a German Picture-Bible
p. 161
The Day of the Lord. After Michelangelo
p. 162
The Last judgment. A fresco in the Campo Santo, Pisa
p. 164
The Christian World-Dispensation According to St. John the Divine. After Schnorr von Carolsfeld
p. 169
The Four Riders of the Apocalypse. Wall-painting on the Campo Santo, Berlin
p. 170
The Woman of Abominations. By Albrecht Dürer
p. 172
Christ's Descent Into Hell. By Sasha Schneider
p. 176
Christian Representation of the Last judgment. From Klassischer Skulpturenschatz
p. 180
Christian Representation of Hell. From Klassischer Skulpturenschatz
p. 181
The Typical Conception of Hell. German woodcut of the age of the Reformation
p. 185
Weighing the Evil and the Good of the Soul. From the cathedral in Autun, France
p. 188
The Doom of the Damned. After Luca Signorelli
p. 189
The Trinity Ideal of Mediæval Christianity. Reproduced from Muther
p. 190
Hades. From Mon. Inst.
p. 194
Human Sacrifices at the Funeral Pyre of Patroclus. From Michaelis, Handbuch der Kunstgeschichte
p. 195
Christ's Death on the Cross and its Prototypes. Biblia Pauperum. Woodcut of the fifteenth century
p. 196
Tuchulcha, the Demon of Infernal Tortures According to the Belief of the Etruscans. Part of a wall-picture of a tomb in Corneto
p. 197
Charun, the Etruscan Demon of Death, Waiting for a Victim. From an Etruscan vase
Oknos and the Daughters of Danaos in Hades. Frieze of a Roman wall decoration
Ixion on the Fiery Wheel
p. 198
Gigantomachy; the Giants Storming Heaven. Vatican Museum
p. 199
Zeus Conquering Typhœus. Baumeister
Gigantomachy; the Giants Storming Heaven. Greek frieze
p. 200
War in Heaven. By Albrecht Dürer
p. 201
Chimæra of Arezzo. Now at Florence
p. 202
Theseus and Pirithous. Baumeister
p. 203
Perseus with the Head of the Decapitated Medusa. Baumeister
p. 204
Perseus and Andromeda. Baumeister
p. 205
Sicilian Coin with Medusa Head
p. 206
The Gorgoneion on the Shield of Phidias's Athene
Gorgoneion, Ancient Face of the Gorgon Medusa. Glyptothek, Munich
p. 207
Medusa Rondanini. Glyptothek, Munich
Bellerophon Slaying the Chimæra. British Museum
p. 208
The Lion-Killing Hero of Khorsabad
p. 209
Prometheus Tied by Zeus to the Stake (or Cross) and Exposed to the Eagle; Rescued by Hercules. Vase now at Berlin, Baumeister
p. 210
The Myth of Prometheus on a Sarcophagus
p. 212
The Temptations of Christ. Mosaic in the cathedral of Monreale, Sicily
p. 213
Christian Gem
p. 218
Mithras Monument of Ostburken
p. 220
Mithraic Symbols. From C. W. King
Mithras the Saviour. Borghesi monument, the Louvre
p. 221
Æon of Zrvan Akarana. From Layard
p. 225
Abraxas Gem
p. 227
Agathodæmon. From C. W. King
Iao Gem
Serapis
p. 228
Serapis Gem
p. 229
p. xi
Hermes, Saviour of Souls
p. 230
Staff of Hermes
Hermes as Jupiter
A Ship Symbolising the Church
p. 233
A Christian Gem with Serpent
A Gnostic Gem
Christian Symbols of the Catacombs
p. 234
Aramæan Warriors, Wearing the Cross as an Amulet for Protection in Battle. After Wilkinson
p. 235
St. Anthony Fighting the Devil with the Cross. After Salvator Rosa
p. 236
St. George, the Princess and the Dragon
Archangel Michael Conquering Satan. By Raphael. In the Louvre
p. 238
Archangel Michael Holding the Scales for Weighing Souls. After Lorenzo Sabbatieri
Hel, the Goddess of the Nether World. By Johannes Gehrts
p. 242
Ragnarok, or Doomsday of the Teutons. By Johannes Gehrts
p. 244
Dante's Ice Hell. By Gustave Doré
p. 248
St. Dunstan and the Devil. From Scheible
p. 255
The Legend of St. Cuthbert. From the Ingoldsby Legends
p. 257
The Legend of St. Medard. From the Ingoldsby Legends
p. 258
The Devil's Bridge Over the Reuss
p. 260
Modern Snake Charmers. Reproduced from Brehm
p. 262
Moses and Aaron Performing the Snake Miracle Before Pharaoh. After Schnorr von Carolsfeld
p. 263
The Egyptian Snake Naja Haje Made Motionless by a Pressure on the Neck. From Verworn after photographs
p. 264
A Successful Rain-Maker Slaying His Rivals. After Schnorr von Carolsfeld
p. 267
Tenskwatawa, the Shawano Prophet in 1808. Reproduced from the Fourteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology
p. 268
Tenskwatawa, the Shawano Prophet in 1831. Reproduced from the Fourteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology
p. 269
p. xii
The Ecstasy of the Ghost Dance of the North American Indians
p. 271
The Blessing. A Ceremony In the Ghost Dance of the North American Indians
p. 273
Henricus Cornelius Agrippa ab Nettesheim. Reproduced from the original edition of his works
p. 274
Illustrations from the Original Edition of Occulta Philosophia
p. 276,277
Exorcising by the Cross. Bas-relief on a water vessel found near Pisama
p. 278
Text of the Baptismal Abjuration Formula in Old Low-German. From O. Henne am Rhyn
p. 281
Specimen Page of an Illuminated Initial in Heisterbach's Dialogus Miraculorum. Original in Royal Library at Düsseldorf
p. 283
Witches Conjuring a Hail-Storm
p. 285
The Devil of Conceit as Seen by a Clergyman on the Dress of a Fashionable Lady
The Main Actors in Mediaeval Mysteries. From Dr. Gustav Könnecke
p. 288
Witches. From Horndorff
p. 290
The Witches' Sabbath. After Picart
p. 291
Virgulta Divina. From an old MS. by George Conrad Horst
p. 294
A Seal of Petrus de Albano for Conjuring Good Spirits
p. 295
The Twelve Houses of a Horoscope. From Gerhard
The Sign of the First Hour of Sunday
p. 296
The Divine Name Arranged for Conjuration
Knight and Devil
p. 297
The Bishop of Lodi Preaching at the Trial of John Huss. From Castelar
p. 301
Savonarola
p. 302
Savonarola Praying in His Cell. From Castelar
p. 303
Burning of Savonarola. After Don Ricardo Balaca
p. 304
Pope Urban V. Proclaiming the Bull In Cæna Domini, 1362, Condemning Heretics
p. 311
The Banner of the Spanish Inquisition. From Picart
p. 312
p. xiii
The Banner of the Inquisition of Goa. From Picart
The Chamber of the Inquisition. From Picart
p. 313
Various Manners of Cross-Examining the Defendants. From Picart
p. 314
A Man and a Woman Convicted of Heresy. From Picart
p. 315
Heretics Condemned to be Burned. From Picart
p. 316
A Man and a Woman Condemned to be Burned. From Picart
p. 317
The Inquisition in Session on the Market Square at Madrid. From Picart
p. 318
Procession of the Inquisition of Goa. From Picart
p. 319
The Last Sermon Preached to the Condemned. From Picart
The Heretics' Death on the Fagots. From Picart
p. 320
The Water Ordeal
p. 327
The Torture-Room at Nuremberg. After C. Rau. Reproduced from B. E. König
p. 329
Agnes Bernauer Drowned as a Witch at the Request of Ernest, Duke of Bavaria. Reproduced from B. E. König
p. 335
Satanic Temptations and the Ladder of Life. From Heradis von Lansperg's Hortus Deliciarum
p. 339
Calvinism Tearing Down the Roman Empire
p. 340
The Kingdom of Satan or the Seven-Headed beast of the Revelation
p. 341
Temptation. A Protestant Conception of Evil. German woodcut of the time of Luther
p. 344
The Race for Fortune. After Henneberg's oil painting
p. 345
The Devil of Unchastity. From a German woodcut
p. 346
The Devil of Niggardliness Making the Miser Hard-Hearted. By Hans Holbein
p. 347
The Latest Fad In Clothes Pilloried. From Sigismund Feyerabend's Theatrum Diabolorum
Scenes from M. Jacob Ruff's Religious Drama
p. 348
Macbeth Consulting the Witches
p. 349
The Natural State of Man
p. 354
The Holy Ghost Illumines the Heart
The Holy Ghost in Possession
p. 355
p. xiv
The Passion of Christ in the Heart
The Holy Trinity Resides in the Heart
p. 356
New Temptations
Satan's Return with Seven Other Spirits More Wicked than Himself
p. 357
The Impious Man Is Doomed When He Dies
A Heart Fortified in Christ
p. 358
The Pious Man is Saved at Death
Poster of the Sixteenth Century
p. 361
Facsimile of the Contract Which Urban Grandier is Reported to have Made with the Devil
p. 364
Apparitions of the Cross. From Grünbeck
p. 371
Friedrich von Spee. After a picture in the Marzellen-Gymnasium at Cologne
p. 376
Illustrations from the Drutenzeitung, 1627
p. 378
Balthasar Bekker. From a portrait on the title-page of Die bezauberte Welt
p. 380
Bekker's Autograph. From his original handwriting
p. 381
Christian Thomasius. From a copper engraving by M. Bernigroth
p. 382
Signature of Christian Thomasius
p. 383
Schottel's Wheel of Hell
p. 385
The Christian Hell
p. 388
Schwenter's Hen Experiment. Reproduced by Father Athanasius Kircher
p. 391
Pater Gassner. Etching by Daniel Chodowiecki
p. 392
Demons on the Tomb of Dagobert. Church of St. Denys, near Paris
p. 412
Covetousness. Library of St. Geneviève, Paris
p. 413
Faust Signing the Contract with the Devil in Blood. By Franz Simm
p. 414
The Legend of Theophilus. From Monk Conrad's illumined MS.
p. 416
Mephistopheles Making His Appearance in Faust's Study. After Schnorr von Carolsfeld
p. 419
p. xv
Faust Beholding the Emblem of the Macrocosm. After p. Rembrandt
Faust Riding on a Barrel out of Auerbach's Cellar. Fresco
p. 420
The Sense-Illusions of the Riotous Students and Faust's Escape. After p. Cornelius
Faust Enjoying Himself in Auerbach's Cellar. Fresco
p. 421
Mephistopheles Having Faust Buried by the Devils. After Retzsch
Studying Black Magic. Widman's Faust
p. 426
Conjuring the Devil. Widman's Faust
Some Pleasantries of Black Magic. Widman's Faust
Miracles and Conjurations. Widman's Faust
Last Hours and Death. Widman's Faust
p. 427
Wagner Conjuring the Devil Auerhan
p. 428
Auerhan's Services
Wagner's jokes
Last Hours and Death
The Devil in the Puppet Play
p. 429
Witches Celebrating Walpurgis Night. By Franz Simm
p. 431
Der Teuffel lest Keyn Lantzknecht mehr inn die Helle faren. Hans Sachs
p. 432
Hell According to Dionysius Klein's Tragico-Comœdia. Reproduced from Bastian's Die Denkschöpfung
p. 433
The Devil in Modern Satirical Journals
p. 436
Hell Up To Date. By permission from A. Young's Hell Up To Date
p. 437
Egyptian Devil. Post-classic age
p. 440
Mahâmâya, the Slayer of Mahisha. From Moor's Hindu Pantheon
The Christian View of the Chained Ruler of Hell. Didron
p. 441
Persian Devil. Didron
p. 442
Turkish Devil. From a Turkish MS
Satan Accusing Job. Fresco in the Campo Santo at Pisa
p. 443
Satan in His Ugliness. From a MS. in the National Library, Paris
Satan in His Ugliness. From an Anglo-Saxon MS. in the British Museum
p. 444
The Trinity Fighting Behemoth and Leviathan. After Didron
p. 445
A Trinity of the Tenth Century. From Müller and Mathe's Archæology
Milton's Satan. After Doré
p. 451
Lucifer Before the Fall. From the Hortus Deficiarum
p. 462
The Fallen Lucifer. After Doré
p. 463
The Feeling of Dependence. After Sasha Schneider
p. 470
Time as a Trinity of Past, Present, and Future. French miniature
p. 472
The Divine Trinity. From a MS. in the Bibliothèque de Sainte Geneviève
Italian Trinity. Didron
p. 473
Satanic Trinity. Didron
The Trinity. From a window in the Church of Notre Dame, at Chalons, France
p. 474
The Trinity of Evil. From a French MS. in the Bibliothèque Royale at Paris
The Three-Headed Serapis. From Bartoli's Lucernæ Veterum Sepulchrales
p. 475
Aziel, the Guardian of Hidden Treasures. From Francisci's Proteus infernalis
God Supporting the World. Fresco in the Campo Santo of Pisa
p. 476
Hercules with Cerberus. From a vase found in Alta mura
p. 477
St. Anthony Assaulted by Devils. After Schoengauer's copper engraving, 1420-1499
p. 479
The Good Lord and the Devil. By Franz Simm
p. 480
The Devil in the Campo Santo (Pisa)
p. 485
Seal of Satan. Didron
p. 486
