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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

 

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Frontispiece

vi

Demonolatrous Ceremonies of the Old Inhabitants of Haiti. After Picart

11

Human Sacrifices Among the Greeks. After an ancient cameo in Berlin

12

A Hind Substituted for Iphigenia. After a Pompeian fresco

13

Apapi (Apophis) and Atmu. After Rawlinson

16

Forms of Taourt. After Rawlinson

16

Seth. After Brugsch

16

The Soul Visiting the Mummy. From the Ani Papyrus

16

Set Teaching the King the Art of War. After Erman

18

The Weighing of the Heart in the Hall of Truth. After Lepsius's reproduction of the Turin papyrus

21

The Abode of Bliss. After Lepsius's reproduction of the Turin papyrus

25

Xisuthrus (the Babylonian Noah) in the Ark. After an ancient Babylonian cylinder. Reproduced from Smith

32

Wall Decorations of the Royal Palace at Nineveh in Their Present State. After Place, reproduced from Lenormant

33

Sacred Tree and Serpent. From an ancient Babylonian cylinder. After Smith

35

The Tree of Life. Decorations on the embroidery of a royal mantle. British Museum

36

Merodach Delivering the Moon-God from the Evil Spirits. From a Babylonian cylinder. Smith

37

The Chaldean Trinity Blessing the Tree of Life. British Museum

40

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The Goddess Anna. Bas-relief in the British Museum

40

Fight Between Bel-Merodach and Tiamat. British Museum

41

Evil Demons. British Museum

43

Demon of the Southwest Wind. Statue in the Louvre. After Lenormant

44

Nirgalli. British Museum. After Lenormant

45

An Ancient Assyrian Bronze Tablet Representing the World in the Clutches of an Evil Demon. Collection of M. de Clercq. After Lenormant

46

An Assyrian Cameo

59

A Persian Cameo

59

Assyrian Cylinder

59

Sculptures on a Royal Tomb. Lenormant

60

Bas-Relief of Persepolis. Lenormant

61

The King Slaying a Unicorn. Bas-relief of Persepolis

63

Saul and the Witch of Endor. After Schnorr von Carolsfeld

68

Assyrian Goat Demons. Carvings on a boulder. After Lenormant

69

The Brahman Trimurti. After Coleman

75

Brahma. Fragment of a car. Musée Guimet

76

Brahma and Suraswati. Reproduced from Hermann Göll

77

Vishnu, Lakshmi, and Brahma. After a native illustration, reproduced from Hermann Göll

78

The Matsya Avatar or Fish Incarnation. From Picart

79

The Kurm Avatar or Tortoise Incarnation From Picart

79

The Varâha Avatar or Wild Boar Incarnation. From Picart

79

The Narasinha Avatar or Man-Lion Incarnation. From Picart

79

Lakshmi, the Goddess of Beauty. Musée Guimet

80

Vishnu Narasinha. Fragment of a car. Musée Guimet

81

Hanuman, the Monkey King, Building the Bridge Over the Strait Between India and Lanka. Reproduced from Hermann Göll

82

The Vâmana Avatar or Dwarf Incarnation

83

The Parashura Avatar, or Battle-Ax Incarnation

83

The Râma Chandra Avatar

83

The Krishna Avatar

83

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The Monkey King Sugriva Fighting. Reproduced from Coleman

84

Vishnu and Shri-Lakshmi as Râma Chandra and Sita After Their Happy Reunion. Reproduced from Coleman

85

Hanuman Reciting His Adventures to Râma Chandra and Sita. Reproduced from Coleman

86

Krishna Nursed by Devaki. Reproduced from Moore's Hindu Pantheon

87

Krishna. Bronze statue, Musée Guimet

88

Krishna, the Favorite of the Country Lasses of Gokula. Reproduced from Coleman

89

Krishna's Adventures. Reproduced from Coleman

90

The Battle Between the Kurus and Pandus on the Field of Kurukshetra. Reproduced from Wilkins

91

Jagannath with His Two Companions. After Schlagintweit

92

Shiva with Parvati. Musée Guimet

93

Shiva-Trimurti. Musée Guimet

93

Shiva Dancing Surrounded by a Halo of Flames. Bronze Statue, Musée Guimet

94

The Buddha Avatar or Vishnu's Incarnation as the Enlightened Teacher of Mankind. Reproduced from Picart

95

The Kalki Avatar or the White-Horse Incarnation. From Picart

95

Shiva Worship. From Picart

95

Shiva and Parvati. From Göll

96

Kali. After an Indian picture. From Schlagintweit

97

Durga. Indian sculpture. From Schlagintweit

98

mKha's Groma, the Tibetan Kali. Musée Guimet

99

Kali-Durga in the Hindu Pantheon. From Wilkins

100

Hari Hara. From Wilkins

101

Ganesa. From Wilkins

102

Agni. From Hermann Göll

102

Kama. From Wollheim da Fonceka

102

Shiva Slaying a Demon. From Wilkins

102

The Demon of Lightning. A Japanese temple statue

106

The Demon of Thunder. A Japanese temple statue

107

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Mara's Army. Gandhara sculptures. Museum of Lahore. From Grünwedel

110

Buddha, Tempted by Mara's Daughters. Gandhara sculptures. Reproduced from Grünwedel

114

An Indian Wheel of Life. From L. E. Waddell's picture

119

A Tibetan Wheel of Life. From Bastian

121

A Japanese Wheel of Life. From Bastian

123

Meifu, the Dark Tribunal. From Karma

128

Kongo, the Sheriff. From a Japanese art print

130

Emma, the Judge. From a Japanese art print

130

The Devil as a Monk. Japanese wood carving, Musée Guimet

131

Oni-no-Nembutzu. After a wood carving in the author's possession

132

Hono-Kuruma, the Cart of Hell. After an old Japanese painting

133

Tibetan Devil's Altar. From Waddell

134

Buddha Extending His Help to a Sufferer in Hell. From Karma

136

The Christian Trinity, God Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Reproduced from Muther

139

Asmodi, an Evil Spirit, Cast Out by Prayer. After Schnorr von Carolsfeld

141

Heaven and Hell. After H. F., an unknown Old-German master

144

The Holy Trinity in the Vatican. After Pietro Berrettini

146

The Buddhist Trinity, the Buddha, the Dharma, the Sangha. Musée Gulmet

147

The Trinity and Mary. After Lübke

148

The Christian Trinity. From Bastian

149

The Trinity of Salerno. Sketched by the artist of the Gartenlaube

150

Jacob Böhme

151

Vignette of Jacob Böhme's Book on the Threefold Life of Man

152

The Three Principles. Frontispiece of Jacob Böhme's book

153

Jesus Casting Out Devils. After Schnorr von Carolsfeld

158

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The Fiend, Sowing Tares Among the Wheat. From a German Picture-Bible

158

Dives Enjoying Life, and Lazarus Suffering. From a German Picture-Bible

160

Dives Tormented in Hell. From a German Picture-Bible

160

Cast Into Outer Darkness Where There Shall be Weeping and Gnashing of Teeth. From a German Picture-Bible

161

The Day of the Lord. After Michelangelo

162

The Last judgment. A fresco in the Campo Santo, Pisa

164

The Christian World-Dispensation According to St. John the Divine. After Schnorr von Carolsfeld

169

The Four Riders of the Apocalypse. Wall-painting on the Campo Santo, Berlin

170

The Woman of Abominations. By Albrecht Dürer

172

Christ's Descent Into Hell. By Sasha Schneider

176

Christian Representation of the Last judgment. From Klassischer Skulpturenschatz

180

Christian Representation of Hell. From Klassischer Skulpturenschatz

181

The Typical Conception of Hell. German woodcut of the age of the Reformation

185

Weighing the Evil and the Good of the Soul. From the cathedral in Autun, France

188

The Doom of the Damned. After Luca Signorelli

189

The Trinity Ideal of Mediæval Christianity. Reproduced from Muther

190

Hades. From Mon. Inst.

194

Human Sacrifices at the Funeral Pyre of Patroclus. From Michaelis, Handbuch der Kunstgeschichte

195

Christ's Death on the Cross and its Prototypes. Biblia Pauperum. Woodcut of the fifteenth century

196

Tuchulcha, the Demon of Infernal Tortures According to the Belief of the Etruscans. Part of a wall-picture of a tomb in Corneto

197

Charun, the Etruscan Demon of Death, Waiting for a Victim. From an Etruscan vase

197

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Oknos and the Daughters of Danaos in Hades. Frieze of a Roman wall decoration

197

Ixion on the Fiery Wheel

198

Gigantomachy; the Giants Storming Heaven. Vatican Museum

199

Zeus Conquering Typhœus. Baumeister

199

Gigantomachy; the Giants Storming Heaven. Greek frieze

200

War in Heaven. By Albrecht Dürer

201

Chimæra of Arezzo. Now at Florence

202

Theseus and Pirithous. Baumeister

203

Perseus with the Head of the Decapitated Medusa. Baumeister

204

Perseus and Andromeda. Baumeister

205

Sicilian Coin with Medusa Head

206

The Gorgoneion on the Shield of Phidias's Athene

206

Gorgoneion, Ancient Face of the Gorgon Medusa. Glyptothek, Munich

207

Medusa Rondanini. Glyptothek, Munich

207

Bellerophon Slaying the Chimæra. British Museum

208

The Lion-Killing Hero of Khorsabad

209

Prometheus Tied by Zeus to the Stake (or Cross) and Exposed to the Eagle; Rescued by Hercules. Vase now at Berlin, Baumeister

210

The Myth of Prometheus on a Sarcophagus

212

The Temptations of Christ. Mosaic in the cathedral of Monreale, Sicily

213

Christian Gem

218

Mithras Monument of Ostburken

220

Mithraic Symbols. From C. W. King

220

Mithras the Saviour. Borghesi monument, the Louvre

221

Æon of Zrvan Akarana. From Layard

225

Abraxas Gem

227

Agathodæmon. From C. W. King

227

Iao Gem

227

Serapis

228

Serapis Gem

229

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Hermes, Saviour of Souls

230

Staff of Hermes

230

Hermes as Jupiter

230

A Ship Symbolising the Church

233

A Christian Gem with Serpent

233

A Gnostic Gem

233

Christian Symbols of the Catacombs

234

Aramæan Warriors, Wearing the Cross as an Amulet for Protection in Battle. After Wilkinson

235

St. Anthony Fighting the Devil with the Cross. After Salvator Rosa

236

St. George, the Princess and the Dragon

236

Archangel Michael Conquering Satan. By Raphael. In the Louvre

238

Archangel Michael Holding the Scales for Weighing Souls. After Lorenzo Sabbatieri

238

Hel, the Goddess of the Nether World. By Johannes Gehrts

242

Ragnarok, or Doomsday of the Teutons. By Johannes Gehrts

244

Dante's Ice Hell. By Gustave Doré

248

St. Dunstan and the Devil. From Scheible

255

The Legend of St. Cuthbert. From the Ingoldsby Legends

257

The Legend of St. Medard. From the Ingoldsby Legends

258

The Devil's Bridge Over the Reuss

260

Modern Snake Charmers. Reproduced from Brehm

262

Moses and Aaron Performing the Snake Miracle Before Pharaoh. After Schnorr von Carolsfeld

263

The Egyptian Snake Naja Haje Made Motionless by a Pressure on the Neck. From Verworn after photographs

264

A Successful Rain-Maker Slaying His Rivals. After Schnorr von Carolsfeld

267

Tenskwatawa, the Shawano Prophet in 1808. Reproduced from the Fourteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology

268

Tenskwatawa, the Shawano Prophet in 1831. Reproduced from the Fourteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology

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The Ecstasy of the Ghost Dance of the North American Indians

271

The Blessing. A Ceremony In the Ghost Dance of the North American Indians

273

Henricus Cornelius Agrippa ab Nettesheim. Reproduced from the original edition of his works

274

Illustrations from the Original Edition of Occulta Philosophia

276,277

Exorcising by the Cross. Bas-relief on a water vessel found near Pisama

278

Text of the Baptismal Abjuration Formula in Old Low-German. From O. Henne am Rhyn

281

Specimen Page of an Illuminated Initial in Heisterbach's Dialogus Miraculorum. Original in Royal Library at Düsseldorf

283

Witches Conjuring a Hail-Storm

285

The Devil of Conceit as Seen by a Clergyman on the Dress of a Fashionable Lady

285

The Main Actors in Mediaeval Mysteries. From Dr. Gustav Könnecke

288

Witches. From Horndorff

290

The Witches' Sabbath. After Picart

291

Virgulta Divina. From an old MS. by George Conrad Horst

294

A Seal of Petrus de Albano for Conjuring Good Spirits

295

The Twelve Houses of a Horoscope. From Gerhard

295

The Sign of the First Hour of Sunday

296

The Divine Name Arranged for Conjuration

296

Knight and Devil

297

The Bishop of Lodi Preaching at the Trial of John Huss. From Castelar

301

Savonarola

302

Savonarola Praying in His Cell. From Castelar

303

Burning of Savonarola. After Don Ricardo Balaca

304

Pope Urban V. Proclaiming the Bull In Cæna Domini, 1362, Condemning Heretics

311

The Banner of the Spanish Inquisition. From Picart

312

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The Banner of the Inquisition of Goa. From Picart

312

The Chamber of the Inquisition. From Picart

313

Various Manners of Cross-Examining the Defendants. From Picart

314

A Man and a Woman Convicted of Heresy. From Picart

315

Heretics Condemned to be Burned. From Picart

316

A Man and a Woman Condemned to be Burned. From Picart

317

The Inquisition in Session on the Market Square at Madrid. From Picart

318

Procession of the Inquisition of Goa. From Picart

319

The Last Sermon Preached to the Condemned. From Picart

319

The Heretics' Death on the Fagots. From Picart

320

The Water Ordeal

327

The Torture-Room at Nuremberg. After C. Rau. Reproduced from B. E. König

329

Agnes Bernauer Drowned as a Witch at the Request of Ernest, Duke of Bavaria. Reproduced from B. E. König

335

Satanic Temptations and the Ladder of Life. From Heradis von Lansperg's Hortus Deliciarum

339

Calvinism Tearing Down the Roman Empire

340

The Kingdom of Satan or the Seven-Headed beast of the Revelation

341

Temptation. A Protestant Conception of Evil. German woodcut of the time of Luther

344

The Race for Fortune. After Henneberg's oil painting

345

The Devil of Unchastity. From a German woodcut

346

The Devil of Niggardliness Making the Miser Hard-Hearted. By Hans Holbein

347

The Latest Fad In Clothes Pilloried. From Sigismund Feyerabend's Theatrum Diabolorum

347

Scenes from M. Jacob Ruff's Religious Drama

348

Macbeth Consulting the Witches

349

The Natural State of Man

354

The Holy Ghost Illumines the Heart

354

The Holy Ghost in Possession

355

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The Passion of Christ in the Heart

355

The Holy Trinity Resides in the Heart

356

New Temptations

356

Satan's Return with Seven Other Spirits More Wicked than Himself

357

The Impious Man Is Doomed When He Dies

357

A Heart Fortified in Christ

358

The Pious Man is Saved at Death

358

Poster of the Sixteenth Century

361

Facsimile of the Contract Which Urban Grandier is Reported to have Made with the Devil

364

Apparitions of the Cross. From Grünbeck

371

Friedrich von Spee. After a picture in the Marzellen-Gymnasium at Cologne

376

Illustrations from the Drutenzeitung, 1627

378

Balthasar Bekker. From a portrait on the title-page of Die bezauberte Welt

380

Bekker's Autograph. From his original handwriting

381

Christian Thomasius. From a copper engraving by M. Bernigroth

382

Signature of Christian Thomasius

383

Schottel's Wheel of Hell

385

The Christian Hell

388

Schwenter's Hen Experiment. Reproduced by Father Athanasius Kircher

391

Pater Gassner. Etching by Daniel Chodowiecki

392

Demons on the Tomb of Dagobert. Church of St. Denys, near Paris

412

Covetousness. Library of St. Geneviève, Paris

413

Faust Signing the Contract with the Devil in Blood. By Franz Simm

414

The Legend of Theophilus. From Monk Conrad's illumined MS.

416

Mephistopheles Making His Appearance in Faust's Study. After Schnorr von Carolsfeld

419

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Faust Beholding the Emblem of the Macrocosm. After p. Rembrandt

419

Faust Riding on a Barrel out of Auerbach's Cellar. Fresco

420

The Sense-Illusions of the Riotous Students and Faust's Escape. After p. Cornelius

420

Faust Enjoying Himself in Auerbach's Cellar. Fresco

421

Mephistopheles Having Faust Buried by the Devils. After Retzsch

421

Studying Black Magic. Widman's Faust

426

Conjuring the Devil. Widman's Faust

426

Some Pleasantries of Black Magic. Widman's Faust

426

Miracles and Conjurations. Widman's Faust

426

Last Hours and Death. Widman's Faust

427

Wagner Conjuring the Devil Auerhan

428

Auerhan's Services

428

Wagner's jokes

428

Last Hours and Death

428

The Devil in the Puppet Play

429

Witches Celebrating Walpurgis Night. By Franz Simm

431

Der Teuffel lest Keyn Lantzknecht mehr inn die Helle faren. Hans Sachs

432

Hell According to Dionysius Klein's Tragico-Comœdia. Reproduced from Bastian's Die Denkschöpfung

433

The Devil in Modern Satirical Journals

436

Hell Up To Date. By permission from A. Young's Hell Up To Date

437

Egyptian Devil. Post-classic age

440

Mahâmâya, the Slayer of Mahisha. From Moor's Hindu Pantheon

440

The Christian View of the Chained Ruler of Hell. Didron

441

Persian Devil. Didron

442

Turkish Devil. From a Turkish MS

442

Satan Accusing Job. Fresco in the Campo Santo at Pisa

443

Satan in His Ugliness. From a MS. in the National Library, Paris

444

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Satan in His Ugliness. From an Anglo-Saxon MS. in the British Museum

444

The Trinity Fighting Behemoth and Leviathan. After Didron

445

A Trinity of the Tenth Century. From Müller and Mathe's Archæology

445

Milton's Satan. After Doré

451

Lucifer Before the Fall. From the Hortus Deficiarum

462

The Fallen Lucifer. After Doré

463

The Feeling of Dependence. After Sasha Schneider

470

Time as a Trinity of Past, Present, and Future. French miniature

472

The Divine Trinity. From a MS. in the Bibliothèque de Sainte Geneviève

472

Italian Trinity. Didron

473

Satanic Trinity. Didron

473

The Trinity. From a window in the Church of Notre Dame, at Chalons, France

474

The Trinity of Evil. From a French MS. in the Bibliothèque Royale at Paris

474

The Three-Headed Serapis. From Bartoli's Lucernæ Veterum Sepulchrales

475

Aziel, the Guardian of Hidden Treasures. From Francisci's Proteus infernalis

475

God Supporting the World. Fresco in the Campo Santo of Pisa

476

Hercules with Cerberus. From a vase found in Alta mura

477

St. Anthony Assaulted by Devils. After Schoengauer's copper engraving, 1420-1499

479

The Good Lord and the Devil. By Franz Simm

480

The Devil in the Campo Santo (Pisa)

485

Seal of Satan. Didron

486

 


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