DEMONOLOGY AND DEVIL-LORE

CONTENTS


Part I.


Chapter I.

Dualism.

Origin of Deism--Evolution from the far to the near--Illustrations
from Witchcraft--The primitive Pantheism--The dawn of Dualism

Chapter II.

The Genesis of Demons.

Their good names euphemistic--Their mixed character--Illustrations:
Beelzebub, Loki--Demon-germs--The knowledge of good and
evil--Distinction between Demon and Devil


Chapter III.

Degradation.

The degradation of Deities--Indicated in names--Legends of
their fall--Incidental signs of the divine origin of Demons and
Devils


Chapter IV.

The Abgott.

The ex-god--Deities demonised by conquest--Theological animosity--
Illustration from the Avesta--Devil-worship an arrested Deism--
Sheik Adi--Why Demons were painted ugly--Survivals of their beauty


Chapter V.

Classification.

The obstructions of man--The twelve chief classes--Modifications of
particular forms for various functions--Theological Demons


Part II.


Chapter I.

Hunger.

Hunger-demons--Kephn--Miru--Kagura--Ráhu the Hindu sun-devourer--
The earth monster at Pelsall--A Franconian custom--Sheitan as
moon-devourer--Hindu offerings to the dead--Ghoul--Goblin--
Vampyres--Leanness of demons--Old Scotch custom--The origin of
sacrifices


Chapter II.

Heat.

Demons of fire--Agni--Asmodeus--Prometheus--Feast of fire--Moloch
--Tophet--Genii of the lamp--Bel-fires--Hallowe'en--Negro
superstitions--Chinese fire-god--Volcanic and incendiary demons--
Mangaian fire-demon--Demons' fear of water


Chapter III.

Cold.

Descent of Ishtar into Hades--Bardism--Baldur--Herakles--Christ--
Survivals of the Frost Giant in Slavonic and other countries--
The Clavie--The Frozen Hell--The Northern abode of Demons--North
side of churches


Chapter IV.

Elements.

A Scottish Munasa--Rudra--Siva's lightning eye--The flaming
sword--Limping Demons--Demons of the storm--Helios, Elias,
Perun--Thor arrows--The Bob-tailed Dragon--Whirlwind--Japanese
Thunder God--Christian survivals--Jinni--Inundations--Noah--Nik,
Nicholas, Old Nick--Nixies--Hydras--Demons of the Danube--Tides
--Survivals in Russia and England


Chapter V.

Animals.

Animal demons distinguished--Trivial sources of Mythology--
Hedgehog--Fox--Transmigrations in Japan--Horses bewitched--
Rats--Lions--Cats--The Dog--Goethe's horror of dogs--Superstitions
of the Parsees, people of Travancore, and American Negroes, Red
Indians, &c.--Cynocephaloi--The Wolf--Traditions of the Nez Perces
--Fenris--Fables--The Boar--The Bear--Serpent--Every animal power
to harm demonised--Horns


Chapter VI.

Enemies.

Aryas, Dasyus,
Nagas--Yakkhos--Lycians--Ethiopians--Hirpini--Polites--Sosipolis--
Were-wolves--Goths and Scythians--Giants and Dwarfs--Berserkers--
Britons--Iceland--Mimacs--Gog and Magog


Chapter VII.

Barrenness.

Indian Famine and Sun-spots--Sun-worship--Demon of the Desert--The
Sphinx--Egyptian Plagues described by Lepsius: Locusts, Hurricane,
Flood, Mice, Flies--The Sheikh's ride--Abaddon--Set--Typhon--The
Cain wind--Seth--Mirage--The Desert Eden--Azazel--Tawiscara and
the Wild-rose


Chapter VIII.

Obstacles.

Mephistopheles on crags--Emerson on Monadnoc--Ruskin on Alpine
peasants--Holy and unholy mountains--The Devil's Pulpit--
Montagnards--Tarns--Tenjo--T'ai-shan--Apocatequil--Tyrolese
legends--Rock ordeal--Scylla and Charybdis--Scottish giants--
Pontifex--Devil's bridges--Le géant Yéous


Chapter IX.

Illusion.

Maya--Natural Treacheries--Misleaders--Glamour--Lorelei--Chinese
Mermaid--Transformations--Swan Maidens--Pigeon Maidens--The
Seal-skin--Nudity--Teufelsee--Gohlitsee--Japanese Siren--Dropping
Cave--Venusberg--Godiva--Will-o'-Wisp--Holy Fräulein--The Forsaken
Merman--The Water-Man--Sea Phantom--Sunken Treasures--Suicide


Chapter X.

Darkness.

Shadows--Night Deities--Kobolds--Walpurgisnacht--Night as
Abettor of Evil-doers--Nightmare--Dreams--Invisible Foes--Jacob
and his Phantom--Nott--The Prince of Darkness--The Brood of
Midnight--Second-Sight--Spectres of Souter Fell--The Moonshine
Vampyre--Glamour--Glam and Grettir--A-Story of Dartmoor