The history of the devil and the idea of evil : from the earliest times to the present day (1900)
Carus, Paul, 1852-1919 · Chicago : Open Court Pub. Co. · leaf 434
, with whichshe enters the house of Christ and seizes his servants. Takingtheir croziers and shepherds crooks, she furnishes them with thisdevils prong instead, fished up by her out of the darkness of Hell,and this hand is named Simony. In the next hands she holds ayard-measure, purse, and scales.… … COVETOUSNESS. (From the manuscript-copy in the Li-brary of St. Genevieve, Paris.) 414 THE HISTORY OF THE DEVIL. the purse she puts the ill-won gains of her treachery, gambling,and dishonesty. Round her neck hangs a bag, and nothing that isput therein can ever come out again; all things remain there…
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