58
Feudal Raids 59
The Wife turns her Goblin into a Devil 66

CHAPTER V.--POSSESSION 69
The Advent of Gold in 1300 69
The Woman makes Terms with the Demon of Gold 71
Impure Horrors of the Middle Ages 75
The Village Lady 78
Hatred of the Lady of the Castle 84

CHAPTER VI.--THE COVENANT 88
The Woman-serf gives Herself up to the Devil 90
The Moor and the Witch 93

CHAPTER VII.--THE KING OF THE DEAD 96
The dear Dead are brought back to Earth 97
The Idea of Satan is softened 103

CHAPTER VIII.--THE PRINCE OF NATURE 106
The Thaw in the Middle Ages 108
The Witch calls forth the East 109
She conceives Nature 112

CHAPTER IX.--THE DEVIL A PHYSICIAN 116
Diseases of the Middle Ages 116
The _Comforters_, or Solaneae 121
The Middle Ages anti-natural 128

CHAPTER X.--CHARMS AND PHILTRES 131
Blue-Beard and Griselda 133
The Witch consulted by the Castle 137
Her Malice 141

CHAPTER XI.--THE REBELS' COMMUNION--SABBATHS--THE BLACK MASS 143
The old Half-heathen Sabasies 144
The Four Acts of the Black Mass 150
Act I. The Introit, the Kiss, the Banquet 151
Act II. The Offering: the Woman as Altar and Host 153

CHAPTER XII.--THE SEQUEL--LOVE AND DEATH--SATAN DISAPPEARS 157
Act III. Love of near Kindred 158
Act IV. Death of Satan and the Witch 165

BOOK II.

CHAPTER I.--THE WITCH IN HER DECLINE--SA