Conway, Moncure Daniel, 1832-1907 · New York : H. Holt and Company · leaf 405
jurer. Always a democrat, the Devil is said in many storiesto have interfered in favour of the peasant or serf againstthe noble. On one occasion he relieved a certain districtof all its arrogant and idle noblemen by gathering themup in a sack and flying away with them; but unhappily,as he was… … Fig. 23.—The Wicked Ale-wife. remained to be patrons of the steeple and burthens onthe people. The Devil was universally regarded as a Nemesis on allpublicans and ale-wives who adulterated the beer theydealt out to the people, or gave short measures. AtReetz, in Altmark, the legend of an ale-wife…
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