[26] Cf. Isaiah xlv. 7, 1 Kings xxii. 21-23, Amos iii. 6.
[27] Iliad, Book xxiv. 663 ff., and cf. Lang’s tr., p. 494.
[28] Vide my Jesus of Nazareth, p. 144.
[29] Notably Tobit and Baruch, and cf. Book of Wisdom, ii. 24, for earliest indications of the belief. The Asmodeus of Tobit, iii. 8 and 17, appears to be the Aeshmô dâevô of the Zend-Avesta.
[30] Exodus xxii. 18.
[31] For details of witch trials in this island cf. Mrs. Lynn Linton’s Witch Stories, passim.
[32] Knowledge Library.
[33] Vide Chips, ii. 1-146.
[34] Cf. Professor Keane’s Appendix to Sir A. C. Ramsay’s Europe, p. 557
[35] Cf. “Little Saddlehurst” in Mr. Geldart’s Folk-Lore of Modern Greece, p. 27.