[Footnote 35: One of the names of the devil in Germany.]
[Footnote 36: One of the names of Beelzebub.]
[Footnote 37: "The Talmudists say that Adam had a wife called Lilis before he married Eve, and of her he begat nothing but devils." Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy.
A learned writer says that Lullaby is derived from "Lilla, abi!" "Begone Lilleth!" she having been supposed to lie in wait for children to kill them.]
[Footnote 38: This name, derived from two Greek words meaning rump and fancy, was meant for Nicolai of Berlin, a great hater of Goethe's writings, and is explained by the fact that the man had for a long time a violent affection of the nerves, and by the application he made of leeches as a remedy, (alluded to by Mephistopheles.)]
[Footnote 39: Tegel (mistranslated pond by Shelley) is a small place a few miles from Berlin, whose inhabitants were, in 1799, hoaxed by a ghost story, of which the scene was laid in the former place.]
[Footnote 40: The park in Vienna.]
[Footnote 41: He was scene-painter to the Weimar theatre.]
[Footnote 42: A poem of Schiller's, which gave great offence to the religious people of his day.]
[Footnote 43: A literal translation of Maulen, but a slang-term in
Yankee land.]