Women as Missionaries, Women as Prophets, Strong Women, and Serpent Women.—Children’s Myths.—Godmothers.—Fairies.—The Magic Wand and the Broomstick.—The Lady of Kynast.—The World of the Dead, the World of Ghosts, and the World of Shadows.—Myths of Animals..[...399]
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]
