CONTENTS.

PART III.

CHAPTER I.

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The Holy Tree of Travancore—The growth of Demons in India, and their decline—The Nepalese Iconoclast—Moral man and unmoral Nature—Man's physical and mental migrations—Heine's 'Gods in Exile'—The Goban Saor—Master Smith—A Greek caricature of the Gods—The Carpenter vs. Deity and Devil—Extermination of the Were-wolf—Refuges of Demons—The Giants reduced to Little People—Deities and Demons returning to nature . . . 299

CHAPTER II.

The Demons' bequest to their conquerors—Nondescripts—Exaggerations of Tradition—Saurian Theory of Dragons—The Dragon not primitive in Mythology—Monsters of Egyptian, Iranian, Vedic, and Jewish Mythologies—Turner's Dragon—Della Bella—The Conventional Dragon . . . 318

CHAPTER III.

The beauty of the Serpent—Emerson on ideal forms—Michelet's thoughts on the viper's head—Unique characters of the Serpent—The Monkey's horror of Snakes—The Serpent protected by superstition—Human defenselessness against its subtle powers—Dubufe's picture of the Fall of Man . . . 325

CHAPTER IV.

An African Serpent-drama in America—The Veiled Serpent—The Ark of the Covenant—Aaron's Rod—The Worm—An Episode on the Dii Involuti The "Hidden Gods" of Etruscan mythology who were believed to control destiny.—The Serapes—The Bambino at Rome—Serpent-transformations . . . 332