craft was not the legitimate outcome of the teachings of the Bible; but an excrescence upon it, claiming its sanction. The whole movement was at bottom an acute paganising of Christianity, under auspices nominally Christian. The doctrines and practices of witchcraft, even part of the legislation against it, were pre-Christian. These facts dispose of the adverse comments of Huxley, in this regard.1
1 "Agnosticism," Nineteenth Century, Feb. 1889.
ABRAHAM as a magician, 57.
Accommodation, 204 f., 277 f.
Ahriman. See Angro-Mainyu.
Akom-mano, 25.
Angro-Mainyu, 24 f., 41.
Apollonius as exorcist, 144.
Ashmedai. See Asmodæus.
Asmodæus, 24 f., 37 ff., 92, 126.
Azi-Dahaka, 25.
BAALZEBUB, a fly-god, 179 f.
Baaras, the mandrake, 127.
Bacchanalia, 282.
Barnabas, Epistle of, 219.
Baruch, Book of, 22.
Beelzebul controversy, the, 11,
174 ff.; its sequel, 190 ff.
Bel-Ea, 182 f.
Bel-Mul-lil, 182 f.
Bene-Elohim, the, 22, 42, 274.
Bidding Prayer, the, 231 f.
CAPERNAUM as focus of the Dia-
sporæ, 104.
Christ and common demonology,
50 ff.
Christ and common magic, 57 ff.
Christ's freedom from supersti-
tion, cause of, 59 f.
Christ's treatment of the pos-
sessed, 137.
Cingalese, the, 19.
Clairvoyance, 151 f.
Classification of the possessed,
157 ff.; results of, 163 ff.
Cockcrow and the demons, 46,
55.
Confession of Jesus as Messiah,
significance of the, 151 ff.
Convulsionnaires, the, 236 f.
Criterion of genuine pessession,
Cro-Magnon race, the, 42.
Cross, sign of the, 229, 234.
Cutha, legend of, 14.
DANCING manias, the, 235 f., 282.
David's feigned dementia, 108.
Decapolis, 103 f., 120.
Degraded gods as demons, 17 f.
Demetrian, Epistle to, 229.
Demoniac of Capernaum, the,
64 ff., 122.
Demoniac of Gerasa, the, 69ff., 123;
scene of the healing of, 194 ff.
Demoniac, the blind and dumb,
89 f., 162, 174 f., 253 ff.; scene of
the healing of, 276 f.
Demoniac, the dumb, 88 f., 162,
174 f., 253 ff.
Demoniacs of China, the, 243 ff.
Demoniacs, strength of, 75, 161 f.
Demoniac state, significance of the,
86.
Demonic inspiration, 156.
Demonising of heathen gods, 17 ff.,
272 ff.
Demonolaters of India, 237 f.
Demonology of the Old Testament,
13 ff.; of the Septuagint, 21 f. ;
of the Apocryphal and Apoca-
lyptic Books, 22 ff.; Rabbinic,
25 ff.; Ethnic, 40 ff.; Greek,
259 ff.
Demonomania of South-Eastern | GENUINE demonic possession,
Europe, the, 234 f.
Demons, Rabbinic, their origin,
numbers, forms, haunts, times
of activity, powers, restric-
tions, management, redeeming
features, 25 ff.; ethnic parallels,
40 ff.; attitude of Christ to,
51 ff.
Dervishes of Algiers, the, 240 ff.
Devil, use of the term, in the New
Testament, 251.
Diagnosis, data of a, 61 f.; uses
of a, 62.
Didache, the, 216 f.
Dilemma, the, possession real or
unreal, 8.
Diognetus, Epistle to, 220 f.
Donatus, Epistle to, 135.
Double consciousness, 74 f.
Druj Nasu, the, 44, 48.
147 ff.; criterion of, 150; ante-
cedents of, 165 ff.; limits of,
171 ff.; local and temporary,
247.
Gerasene affair, the, 11; diffi-
culties of, 194 ff.; scene of,
194 ff.; number of the demon-
ised, 197 f.; alleged transmi-
gration of the demons, 199 f. ;
data for a reconstruction, 200 ff.;
stampede of the herd, 207 ff.;
loss of the swine-owners, 213 f.
worth of some criticisms, 214 f.
HEILPRIN on the natatorial
powers of swine, 214.
Hell, the sign from, 189; routes
to, 201.
Hell-broths, 130, 283.
Hermas, Shepherd of, 217 f.
Hezekiah as a magician, 57.
Historicity of the Gospel narrat-
Eleazar, the magician, 126, 128, Huxley - Gladstone
Enoch, Book of, 23, 42.
Enoch, Book of the Secrets of, 42.
Environment peculiar in the time
of Christ, 248 f.
Ephesian demoniac, the, 99 ff.,
161 f.
Ephesian Letters, the, 133.
Ephesian narrative, fact-basis of
the, 255 f.
Epilepsy not possession, 62 f.;
popular treatment of, 280.
Epileptic idiot, the, 81 ff., 123,
158 f.
Evil and unclean, significance of
the terms, 121 ff.
FAILURE of the Nine, 191 ff.
Fairy hosts, the, 14.
Fallacies, 269 f.
Fasting and ejection of demons,
278 f.
Flagellants, the, 282.
Fly-gods of the ancients, 179 f.
Folie à deux, 197 f.
Freudenschmerz, 79.
the, 11, 196 f.
Hypnotism, 173, 242 f.
Lord, of dung, 181; of the dwell-
ing, 181 ff.
Luke's mannerisms, 201, 254 f., 259.
Lupercalia, the, 282.
Lycanthropes, 110 f., 115, 282.
Lycanthropy, 110 f., 115, 282.
MAGIC, black and white, 58.
Mandrake, the, 126 f.
Mary Magdalene, 90 ff., 162.
Mazziqin, the, 25.
Medicine, Greek, 129, 265 ff.
Mental health of the Hebrews,
108 ff.
temperament of the
Hebrews, 106 ff.
Messianic hope, the, 154 ff.
Milesian Letters, the, 133.
Moor-cock, the, 39.
Moral therapeutics, 142 ff.
NAGGAR-TURA. See Moor-cock.
Naturalness of the ethnic theory
of possession, 120 ff.; of the
terms "evil" and "unclean,"
121 ff.
Nebuchadnezzar's
Nomenclature of the New Testa-
ment, 251 ff.
Nose-ring, the, 128.
SARAH and Asmodæus, 24, 126.
Satan casting out Satan, 132, 177,
185 f.
Satan-possession, 178, 251.
Satan-Sammael, 25.
Scarab-beetle, the, 179.
Sea-fight of Tarichæa, the, 213.
Seirim, the, 15, 16, 25.
Sennacherib, 105.
Number of the possessed, 103 ff., Septuagint, the, 21.
PARABLE of the last state, the, Shakers, the, 236.
Patriarchs, Testament of the Shidu, 18.
Twelve, 23, 279.
Polycarp, Epistle of, 220.
Popular language, use of, by Jesus,
271 f.
Population of Palestine, 105 f.
Possession, in sub-apostolic times,
216 ff.; in ante- Nicene and
post-Nicene times, 221 ff.; in
medieval and modern times,
233 ff.; manifold, 203 f.; medical
Sibylline Oracles, 22.
Solomon as a magician, 37 ff., 57,
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