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First published at 1879.Three Friars, says a legend, hid themselves near the Witch
Sabbath orgies that they might count the devils; but the Chief of
these, discovering the friars, said—‘Reverend Brothers, our army
is such that if all the Alps, their rocks and glaciers, were equally
divided among us, none would have a pound’s weight.’ This was
in one Alpine valley. Any one who has caught but a glimpse of
the world’s Walpurgis Night, as revealed in Mythology and
Folklore, must agree that this courteous devil did not overstate
the case. Any attempt to catalogue the evil spectres which have
haunted mankind were like trying to count the shadows cast
upon the earth by the rising sun. This conviction has grown
upon the author of this work at every step in his studies of the
subject.In 1859 I contributed, as one of the American ‘Tracts for the
Times,’ a pamphlet entitled ‘The Natural History of the Devil.’
Probably the chief value of that essay was to myself, and this in
that its preparation had revealed to me how pregnant with
interest and importance was the subject selected. Subsequent
researches in the same direction, after I had come to reside in
Europe, revealed how slight had been my conception of the
vastness of the domain upon which that early venture was
made. In 1872, while preparing a series of lectures for the
Royal Institution on Demonology, it appeared to me that the best
I could do was to print those lectures with some notes and
additions; but after they were delivered there still remained with
me unused the greater part of materials collected in many
countries, and the phantasmal creatures which I had evoked
would not permit me to rest from my labours until I had dealt
with them more thoroughly.