LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
Father Rhine.................................................[...003]
The impassive historian .....................................[...004]
Vast forests as old as the world ............................[...005]
The first pioneers...........................................[...007]
The Celts were a people from India...........................[...009]
What happy people scholars are...............................[...010]
A horrible custom............................................[...019]
Dead man’s trees.............................................[...022]
The Druids now appear for the first time in Germany..........[...023]
The other chieftains were generally polygamists..............[...031]
Courts of justice were always held under an elm tree.........[...032]
Attempt to murder the mayor .................................[...033]
Mistletoe an officinal and sacred plant......................[...035]
Gauls........................................................[...037]
Serpents’ knots..............................................[...038]
Prophetic trembling and neighing.............................[...041]
A Druid teacher .............................................[...044]
The Germans were in full flight .............................[...046]
The bloody knife of the Druids ..............................[...052]
I turn my steps from the sacred precincts....................[...055]
Who are these other soldiers?................................[...057]
These laborers seem to suffer from some restraint............[...058]
I look around for a resting-place ...........................[...059]
A shepherd...................................................[...060]
The guard of a sword, which had been driven into the ground..[...061]
The shepherd,—as mournful as ever............................[...063]
Herds of swine are wallowing ................................[...066]
A young wife bearing the burden of united household..........[...067]
Happiness consists in the fulfillment of duty ...............[...068]
Such were the ways of our fathers: rejoice in facing death...[...069]
The Druidical altars.........................................[...070]
As there is no window I peep through the trap-door...........[...072]
One of the chief men of the country .........................[...075]
She was a young Ionian girl, a country-woman of Aspasia......[...080]
The boudoir of a Celtic lady.................................[...082]
The Druid-bard...............................................[...085]
Death of Druids..............................................[...091]
A Druidess endowed with the gift of prophecy ................[...093]
The victorious march of the Romans ..........................[...094]
Her deities personified nothing but vices ...................[...096]
The Hercules—so called.......................................[...098]
Mercury, the son of Jupiter .................................[...099]
“O Varus, Varus, bring me back my legions!”..................[...103]
Perhaps the old river remembered his grievances..............[...105]
They made him a king, the King of German rivers..............[...106]
He had already allowed Jupiter to cross......................[...107]
The vines began to adorn the banks of the river..............[...108]
Once more caresses had their hoped-for effect................[...109]
He did his best to help everybody across.....................[...110]
Fnvolous and ill-mannered deities............................[...110]
The dauntless pirates will end by wearing white night-caps...[...113]
The great Northern Tempest ..................................[...115]
The German Druids gave way...................................[...117]
Iormungondur, the great sea serpent..........................[...118]
The giant Ymer has been born.................................[...123]
The first men had been born with a telescope in their pocket?[...127]
Ymer was the first to succumb................................[...128]
After the giants came the turn of land and sea monsters......[...129]
The new creation was assuming a more pleasing appearance.....[...132]
Deer, eland, and aurochs were bounding in herds..............[...133]
Incessantly a tiny squirrel comes and goes...................[...136]
A vulture perching upon the loftiest top of the sacred tree..[...137]
Thor’s weighty hammer Mjoïner................................[...139]
The good Freyr seated at Odin’s table........................[...141]
Portrait of Freyr............................................[...142]
Bragi and the beautiful Freya ...............................[...147]
Return of the eagle with the three precious vessels..........[...149]
Balder, the bright god.......................................[...151]
The wolf Fenris..............................................[...156]
Converse with each other by significative glances............[...159]
They were the Norns..........................................[...160]
He took counsel with the Norns...............................[...162]
“To Egir, the seas and navigation”...........................[...164]
Gefione took her four sons and changed them into oxen........[...165]
Jarl, the noble..............................................[...171]
The Valkyrias ...............................................[...175]
Beautiful nymphs of carnage..................................[...176]
A very mammoth of a boar.....................................[...180]
Feast in Scandinavian Paradise...............................[...181]
Hela, the pale goddess.......................................[...185]
“Balder, fair Balder, is going to die”.......................[...189]
Loki succeeds in exhilarating even Odin himself..............[...191]
Balder is amused by the game.................................[...192]
When the mother told her pitiful tale the iron trees wept....[...197]
The three sacred cocks announcing the Twilight of Greatness..[...202]
The death of the gods........................................[...208]
My VIIIth chapter is thus changed into a cenotaph............[...211]
I like to glean a little where scholars have reaped..........[...214]
The two religions face to face...............................[...217]
Ovid reciting his “Metamorphoses”............................[...219]
Druidic worship suspended by the Romans......................[...220]
“Miserere mei, Jesu”.........................................[...222]
Perkunos, Pikollos, and Potrympos............................[...224]
Puscatus,—a kind-hearted god ................................[...226]
Monstrous reptiles accompany the gods to Germany.............[...227]
He let his heavy mace fall upon a little town................[...238]
The blacksmiths of Ilmarinnen................................[...239]
Marietta appeared in their midst.............................[...245]
“Do you think I am a man to be taken in ?”...................[...251]
Horse-head, a la mode........................................[...253]
The Undines mingled with the Tritons and the Naiads..........[...258]
Have transferred their Olympus to the Brocken................[...259]
The Olympus of the North.....................................[...263]
Able to see without being seen ..............................[...266]
Dance of the white fairies ..................................[...269]
The black fairies personify Nightmare .......................[...271]
An important personage with a will of his own ...............[...272]
Enormous toads are posted about.as watchmen..................[...279]
Elementary spirits of the water..............................[...283]
Imaginary music .............................................[...288]
The nix with the harp .......................................[...289]
Schoolmaster’s son who had fallen in love with one of them...[...291]
He thought he saw a pale form arise from the waters..........[...294]
He rose suddenly and fled to another room ...................[...295]
The steward whispered some words in her ear .................[...297]
Niord, the Scandinavian god .................................[...299]
This creature is Nixcobt.....................................[...300]
The Vintner is hanged, and Nixcobt laughs heartily...........[...302]
Four Prussian soldiers watching the water ...................[...305]
The Zotterais protected sheep ...............................[...309]
The master has nothing to do.................................[...315]
Prefer to remember the Kobold a cheerful household companion.[...317]
The Zotterais as fond of stables as the Kobolds of kitchens..[...319]
They are naturally easily tired .............................[...321]
The Killecroffs are children of the Devil ...................[...322]
His nurse has to be reinforced by two goats and a cow........[...324]
The great Reformer, Dr. Martin Luther .......................[...326]
The fall of Killecroff ......................................[...331]
Giants and dwarfs............................................[...335]
The last of the giants.......................................[...337]
Grommelund and Ephesim ......................................[...339]
The humiliated giant.........................................[...340]
Our good little dwarfs ......................................[...341]
He stood at first with his mouth wide open ..................[...346]
A long and deep sigh of satisfaction.........................[...348]
Flight of the conspirators...................................[...353]
Kreiss slipped boldly into this vast and spacious cavity.....[...354]
They fixed strong piles between the two rows of teeth........[...355]
In his hand he held not a club but a lantern.................[...357]
Kreiss compelled to leave his position by torrents of tears..[...359]
The last two held each a long thorn in their hands...........[...361]
Kreiss entering the great meeting hall.......................[...363]
Putskuchen was in love.......................................[...364]
Ouadragant vanquished........................................[...367]
The passing of the wizard ...................................[...371]
Venus and Tannhàuser.........................................[...390]
His ex-colleague Jupiter ....................................[...396]
The author pursues the subject ..............................[...399]
The conscientious collector of myths.........................[...401]
The Druidess transformed into an accursed witch..............[...406]
To return was as impossible as to proceed....................[...409]
She had rejoined her victims ................................[...413]
He is the Lord Hackelberg....................................[...417]
These ghosts can imitate all the motions of men..............[...421]
Farewell.....................................................[...423]
