ical wife had deserted him
and run away with Lucifer, whom she had formerly known in heaven.

The King-Devil apparently always succeeded somehow or other in
breaking the chains with which, according to legend, he had repeatedly
been bound and sealed in the lowest depths of hell. From antediluvian
times the demons appear to have been attracted by the daughters of men
and to have come frequently up to earth to pay court to them. The only
devil who must always remain in hell is the stoker, Brendli by name.
The fires of hell must not be allowed to go out.

The anatomically melancholic Burton also tells of a devil who was in
love with a mortal maiden. Jacques Cazotte tells the story of
Beelzebub as a woman in love with an earth-born man.

LUCIFER

BY ANATOLE FRANCE

This writer has a great sympathy for devil-lore, and many of his
characters show the cloven hoof. An analyst of illusions, he has a
profound interest in the greatest of illusions. An assailant of every
form of superstition, he has a tender affection for the greatest of
superstitions. An exponent of the radical and ironical spirit in
French literature, he feels irresistibly drawn to the eternal Denier
and Mocker.

The story of the Florentine painter Spinello Spinelli, to whom Lucifer
appeared in a dream to ask him in what place he had beheld him under
so brutish a form as he had painted him, is told in Giorgio Vasari's
_Vite de' piu eccellenti Pittori, Scultori, ed Architteti_ (1550),
which is the basis of the history of Italian art. It was treated by
Barrili in his novel _The Devil's Portrait_ (1882; Engl. tr. 1885),
from whom Anatole France may have got the idea for his story. But
there is also a mediaeval French legend about a monk (_Du moine qui
contrefyt l'ymage du Diable, qui s'en corouca_), who was forced by the
indignant devil to paint him in a less ugly manner.

The devil is very sensitive in regard to his appearance. On a number
of occasions he expressed his bitter resentment at the efforts of a
certain class of artists to represent him in a hideous form (cf. M. D.
Conway, _Demonology and Devil-Lore_). Daniel Defoe has well remarked
that the devil does not think that the people would be terrified half
so much if they were to converse face to face with him. "Really," this
biographer of Satan goes on to say, "it were enough to fright the
devil himself to meet himself in the dark, dressed up in the several
figures which imagination has form