[Footnote 9]: Wallhausen 'On the Art of War.'
[Footnote 10]: A name given to bands that went about pillaging the fields, orchards, and gardens.
[Footnote 11]: Because they slide and skate.
[Footnote 12]: A mocking allusion to the mountainous country of Bavaria.
[Footnote 13]: It was especially John the Baptist, who, according to the third chapter of St. Luke, was the merciful protector of soldiers; but at the beginning of the Reformation the difference between the Baptist and Evangelist was little understood by Landsknechte, nor indeed by all ecclesiastics.
[Footnote 14]: Bilwiz-kind, same as child of the devil. Bilwiz is an old name for magician or hobgoblin.
[Footnote 15]: One is tempted to change this passage to an old heathenish form: "Whoever falls by honourable weapons on the field of battle, will be carried to Walhalla by the virgins of battle; those who contend with the sorcery of the gods of death, Helja takes to herself." We find the name of Black Kaspar for the devil even in the sixteenth century.
[Footnote 16]: Königl. schwedischer Victorischlüssel a. a. O.
[Footnote 17]: Zimmermann, Goth. Msc. a. a. O.
[Footnote 18]: Grimmelshausen speaks of the art of rendering invulnerable as credible, but as a thing long known. He was more interested in the superstition which was prevalent in 1660--the art of becoming invisible and of witchcraft. At the end of the century magic rods were common, and familiar spirits powerful. Wunderbares Vogelnest. ii. Th. Satyrischer Pilgram ii. Th.