Demonology and devil-lore . f themediaeval miracle-plays. * No greaterproof, says Dr. Dasent, can be givenof the small hold which the christianDevil has taken of the Norse mind, thanthe heathen aspect under which he con-stantly appears, and the ludicrous wayin which he is always outwitted. ^ * TheGermans, says Max Miiller, indoc-trinated with the idea of a real devil,the Semitic Satan or Diabolus, treatedhim in the most good-humoured man-ner. 2 A fair idea of the insignificancehe and his angels reached may begained from the accompaning picture(Fig. 18), with which a mediaeval Missalnow in poss
Demonology and devil-lore . f themediaeval miracle-plays. * No greaterproof, says Dr. Dasent, can be givenof the small hold which the christianDevil has taken of the Norse mind, thanthe heathen aspect under which he con-stantly appears, and the ludicrous wayin which he is always outwitted. ^ * TheGermans, says Max Miiller, indoc-trinated with the idea of a real devil,the Semitic Satan or Diabolus, treatedhim in the most good-humoured man-ner. 2 A fair idea of the insignificancehe and his angels reached may begained from the accompaning picture(Fig. 18), with which a mediaeval Missalnow in possession of Sir Joseph Hooker is could not be expected that the masses would fearbeings whom their priests thus held up to ridicule. Itis not difficult to imagine the process of evolution bywhich the horns of such insignificant devils turned to theasinine ears of such devils as this stall carving at Corbeil,near Paris (Fig. 19), which represented the popular view ^ Dasents Norse Tales, Introd. ciii.* Chips, Fig. 18.—Devils(Old Missal). DEVILS ON THE STAGE. J95
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