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