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is the name of the German tale now translated under the title of the Demon of the Ring. The original name might not be understood by some of our readers, for Amor in the German language, signifies not only the God of Love, but any supernatural being connected with it. The German nomenclature of the spiritual world being much more copious than the English, we have no appropriate names to designate these numerous beings.

In the Year 1309, the Baltic and a part of the German Sea were strongly shaken by an earthquake, and a considerable tract of the northern part of Germany was damaged by the Sea. Rugen, now an island, then formed a peninsula, and was much larger than in