Acknowledgements

We are grateful to Faber and Faber for permission to quote from "the God of the Witches" by Margaret Murray, and to Penguin Ltd. for permission to use lines from Philip Wayne's translation of Goethe's Faust.

The National Museum, Lisbon, has given permission for the full illustration of the Altar-piece, "The Temptations of St. Anthony."

We are deeply grateful to Frau A. Wertheim Aymes-Koome for her permission to publish this translation, her help with the bibliography, and the very generous loan of the plates for the illustrations.

A number of works have changed hands since the original publication of this book.

Museums, galleries, owners and publishers of illustrations are acknowledged in the captions, and we should like here to thank all who so kindly gave generous help in tracing owners, and also for their permission for reproduction in this edition. We have made every possible effort to contact owners and holders of the copyrights. Where our efforts have been unsuccessful or misdirected we extend our apologies for any unwitting infringement, and beg their indulgence.

The following publishers have given permission for quotations from other works:

• Faber and Faber Ltd., from "the God of the Witches" (43)

• Freies Geistesleben, Stuttgart, Die Chymische Hochzeit (1)

• Martinus Nijhoff B.V. S'Gravenhage, Sinnepoppen (63)

• Penguin Ltd., Goethe, Faust, parts I and II, Trans. Philip Wayne (27)

• Pitman Publishing Ltd., London, Fig. 118 (18)

• Urachhaus, Stuttgart. From three books by Emil Bock (11, 12, 13)

• Verlag Valentin Koerner, Baden Baden Books by M. Lurker

The three panels of The Temptations of St. Anthony in colour Plate B are reproduced with kind permission of the Ministerio da Educao Nacionale-Secretaria de Estado da Instrucao e Cultura-Direccao-Geral dos Assuntos Culturais -- Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga -- Lisbon.

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