reatly abused power of Church and State, only manifested itself at such periods of rebellion against forms or ideas grown old. And with every new rebellion, everyfresh outburst or wild inundation and bursting over the barriers, humanity and woman gain something, that is to say, their just dues or rights. For as every freshet spreads more widely its waters over the fields, which are in due time the more fertilized thereby, so the world at large gains by every revolution, however terrible or repugnant it may be for a time. The Emancipated or Woman's Rights woman, when too enthusiastic, generally considers man as limited, while Woman is destined to gain on him.In earlier ages a contrary opinion prevailed, and both are, or were, apparently in the wrong, so far as the future is concerned. For in truth both sexes are progressive, and progress in this respect means not a conflict of the male and female principle, such as formed the basis of theMahabarata, but a gradual ascertaining of true ability and adjustment of relations or coordination of powers. These remarks are appropriate to my text and subject, because it isin studying the epochs when woman has made herself prominent and influentialthat we learn what the capacities of the female sex truly are. Among these, that of witchcraft as it truly was - not as it is generallyquite misunderstood - is a deeply interesting as any other. For the witch,laying aside all question as to magic or its non-existence - was once a real factor or great power in rebellious social life, and to this very dayit is recognized that there is something uncanny, mysterious, and incomprehensible in woman, which neither she herself nor man can explain.THE CHILDREN OF DIANA, OR HOW THE FAIRIES WERE BORN All things were made by Diana, the great spirits of the stars, men in their time and place, the giants which were of old, and the dwarfs who dwell in the rocks, and once a month worship her with cake...
