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Druids--Beltane Feasts--Arkite and Sabian
Superstition--Dancing to the Song of the Cuckoo--Initiation into the
Druidical Mysteries--The Goodmane's Land and the Guidman's
Fauld--Offerings to Demi-gods--Propitiating Beasts of Prey--Sacred
Cairns--Trees dedicated to Demons--Law forbidding Worship of the
Sun, Moon, Fire, Rivers, Wells, Stones, or Forest Trees--Extracts from
Kirk-Session Records--Land dedicated to Satan--Midsummer and
Hallow Fires forbidden--Yule-day--Order of the General Assembly as
to Druidical Customs--Old Customs ordered to be discontinued 262
CHAPTER XXVII.
Dr. Stuart on the Druids--Their Deities, etc.--Gauls descendants of
Dis--Funeral Rites--Slaves and Clients burned--What Pliny
says--Tallies used in making known the Will of Heaven--Walking
through the Fire--Wonder-working Eggs--Easter Eggs represent
Druidical Eggs--Origin of Druids--Wise Men of the East were probably
Druids--Island of Iona--Druidical Cairns--Stones of
Judgment--Misletoe regarded as a Charm--Rings worn as Preventatives
against Witchcraft--Stonehenge--Merlin the Magician--Stones brought
from Africa by Giants--Graves of British Lords 267

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DEMONOLOGY.
CHAPTER XXVIII.
First Ideas of Demonology--Rabbinical Tradition--Adam's
Marriage--The Wicked Lilith--Egyptian Tradition--Arabian Worship of
Genii--Christians' Opinions of Demons--Forms assumed by Evil
Spirits--Demoniacal King--Duty of Inferior Demons--Task of Benign
Spirits--Schools of Magic--Circassian Opinions--Belief of
Indians--Situation of Hell--Men's Actions recorded--Rewards and
Punishments--How to frighten Demons--Treatment of the
Sick--Attendant Angels--Worship of Gods--Foretelling Future
Events--Small-pox propagated by an Evil Genius--Souls of Deceased
Persons--Effect of Charms 273
CHAPTER XXIX.
Heathen Devotion in Ceylon--Superstitious Customs among the
Schismatic Greeks--Negro Belief in Fetishes--Charms--Magic taught
by the Priests--Dead Persons metamorphosed into Serpents--How the
Gaures disposed of their Dead--Souls Blessed or Damned--Orders of
Genii in Madagascar--Belief of the Caribbees--Brazilian
Superstition--Peruvian Tradition--American Indians--Demons in the
Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries--Satan in France--Manes, Anima,
and Umbra among the Greeks and Romans 279
CHAPTER XXX.
Visible Ghosts--Superstition on the Baltic Shores--A German
Legend--Demons in the West of Europe--Love, how plighted in
Orkney--The Monster Ymir--Origin of Fairies--The Duergar or
Dwarfs--Brownies in Ireland and the Highlands of Scotland--Nine
Classes of Evil Spirits--Vampires--Man's Double or Fetch--Churchyard
Ghosts--Souls of Suicides--Burial of Suicides and Murderers at Cross
Roads--Luther on Evil Spirits and Witches 284

CHAPTER XXXI.
Belief and Teaching of the Roman Catholic Church--Swedenborg's
Intercourse with Spirits--Marcus Brutus and his Evil Genius--Cassius
and Julius Cæsar's Ghost at Philippi--Plutarch on Spectres--Socrates on
the same subject--Archbishop Bruno and the Spectre--A Haunted
House--Spectre at Sea--Ghost of a Murdered Man in New South Wales
291
CHAPTER XXXII.
Spiritualism Past and Present--Magic taught in Leipsic--Spirit of
Marshal Saxe--How Spirits were Invoked--Voices of
Spirits--Mysterious Death of a Magician--Unearthly
Huntsman--Prediction and its Fulfilment--An Estate lost at the Gaming
Table--A Baron Shot--A Marriage prevented by an
Apparition--Consulting a Witch--Raising the Spirit of a Murdered
Man--A Murderer's Fate 297
CHAPTER XXXIII.
Antonio the Rich--Dreadful Announcement from a Volcano's
Mouth--Three Ghosts--Mozart apprehensive of Death--Mozart writing
a Requiem for himself--Messenger from another World--Mozart's
Death--Ghost of a Lady--A Haunted House--Iron Cage--Youth starved
to Death--Frightful Dreams and Dreadful Sights--Dog frightened by a
Spirit--Disturbed House--Duchess of Mazarin--Madame de
Beauclair--Compact between the Living and the Dead--A Lady's Death
foretold by a Spirit 304
CHAPTER XXXIV.
Sir George Villiers' Ghost--Duke of Buckingham Murdered--Lord
Lyttelton and others profaning Christmas--A Troubled
Mind--Apparition of a Suicide--Neglected Warning--Ominous
Hour--Lord Lyttelton found Dead at the dreaded time--Death of an old
Roman King--Alarming Prodigies--Tales from the Eddas--A

Scandinavian Warrior's Ghost--An Icelandic Lady's Ghost--Fear of
approaching Calamities--Association of Ghosts--Apparitions of
Drowned Men--Christians not disturbed by Spectres--A Band of
Demons--Priest exorcising Evil Spirits 312
CHAPTER XXXV.
A Mysterious Hunter--Man and Horse supposed to be
Devils--Flagellation--Tales of the Scotch Highlands--Croaking
Raven--Death of a suspected Witch--Resort of Witches and Evil
Spirits--Spirits hastening to a Church--Black Man with Eyes like
Fire--Horse breathing Smoke and Flame 318
CHAPTER XXXVI.
Churchmen subjected to the Onslaught of Demons--St. Maurus
rebuking Evil Spirits--St. Romualdus' Conflict with Satan--St.
Frances--St. Gregory--Monk in Purgatory--Institution of the Thirty
Masses for the Dead--An Excommunicated Gentleman--St. Benedict
and the Blackbird's Song--A Monk restored to Life--St. Benedict's
Sister ascending to Heaven--St. Francis' Dominion over Living
Creatures and the Elements--St. Catherine's Power--St. Stanislaus'
Miracles--A Dead Man giving Evidence--The Dead refusing a Renewal
of Life--St. Philip Nerius and Evil Spirits--Spirits ministering to St.
Erasmus--St. Norbert--Story relating to Henry I.--St. Margaret's
Triumph--St. Ignatius--St. Stephen--Satan's Hatred of St. Dominick--St.
Donatus endowing a Corpse with Speech--St. Cyriacus, St. Largus, and
St. Smaragdus, the Martyrs--St. Clare--St. Bernard's Power--St.
Cæsarius' Wonder-working Crook--St. Giles and the Hind--St.
Euphemia's Guardian Angels--St. Francis' Spirit--St. Bridget--St. Denis'
Spirit--St. Teresa and the Angels--St. Hilarian--St. Martin--St.
Catherine's Body carried by Angels to Mount Sinai--St. Francis
Xaverius' Belief in Virtue of Bells--St. Nicholas--St. Ambrose--St.
Lucy raising her Mother from the Dead--St. Anastasia sustained by
Bread from Heaven--St. Thomas enduring Martyrdom in Life and after
Death--Penance of Henry II.--Barbarous Conduct of Henry VIII.--A
Hungarian Legend 323

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MAGIC AND ASTROLOGY.
CHAPTER XXXVII.
Magic a Study among the Learned--Plato and Pythagoras travelled to
learn the Art, and taught it--Speakers made Eloquent by Magical
Art--Virtue of Gems--How Jewels should be set--When they are to be
Graven--Cures effected by Hippocrates--Democritus on Magic--Many
Charms--Evil Spirits--Magicians sacrificing to the Planets--Magician's
Power to produce Monstrous Creatures--Egyptian Magicians--Magical