{"product_id":"2940013697430","title":"The Demon of the Hartz","description":"The solitudes of the Hartz forest in Germany, but especially the\u003cbr\u003emountains called Blockberg, or rather Blockenberg, are the chosen\u003cbr\u003escene for tales of witches, demons, and apparitions. The occupation of\u003cbr\u003ethe inhabitants, who are either miners or foresters, is of a kind that\u003cbr\u003erenders them peculiarly prone to superstition, and the natural\u003cbr\u003ephenomena which they witness in pursuit of their solitary or\u003cbr\u003esubterraneous profession, are often set down by them to the\u003cbr\u003einterference of goblins or the power of magic. Among the various\u003cbr\u003elegends current in that wild country, there is a favourite one which\u003cbr\u003esupposes the Hartz to be haunted by a sort of tutelar demon, in the\u003cbr\u003eshape of a wild man, of huge stature, his head wreathed with oak\u003cbr\u003eleaves, and his middle tinctured with the same, bearing in his hand a\u003cbr\u003epine torn up by the root. It is certain that many persons profess to\u003cbr\u003ehave seen such a man traversing, with huge strides, the opposite ridge\u003cbr\u003eof a mountain, when divided from it by a narrow glen; and indeed the\u003cbr\u003efact of the apparition is so generally admitted, that modern\u003cbr\u003escepticism has only found refuge by ascribing it to optical deception.","brand":"WDS Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47152727523568,"sku":"2940013697430","price":1.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013697430","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}