Note 3 — PREFACE BY THE TRANSLATOR.
William Edward Frye translation
The figure given to the devil by the imagination of the northern nations is a confirmation of this hypothesis; whereas the Orientals give to him a more seducing form; but in modern times the least cultivated minds reject the northern type, as Göthe says in his drama of Faust:
Das nordische Phantom ist jetzt nicht mehr zu schauen, Wo siehst du jetzt die Hörner, Schweif und Klauen? (Faust von Göthe.)