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