Sidonia the Sorceress Volume II of II by Wilhelm Meinhold Fiction Literary Fantasy Horror Fairy Tales Folk Tales Legends & Mythology

<p><strong>Everyone who has heard of the animadversions which The Amber Witch excited many asserting that it was only dressed-up history though I repeatedly assured them it was simple fiction will pardon me if I do not here distinctly declare whether Sidonia be history or fiction.</strong></p><p>The truth of the material as well as of the formal contents can be tested by anyone by referring to the authorities I have named; and in connection with these I must just remark that in order to spare the reader any difficulties which might present themselves to eye and ear in consequence of the old-fashioned mode of writing I have modernized the orthography and amended the grammar and structure of the phrases. And lastly I trust that all just thinkers of every party will pardon me for having here and there introduced my supernatural views of Christianity. A man's principles as put forward in his philosophical writings are in general only read by his own party and not by that of his adversaries. A Rationalist will fly from a book by a Supernaturalist as rapidly as this latter from one by a Friend of Light. But by introducing my views in the manner I have adopted in place of publishing them in a distinct volume I trust that all parties will be induced to peruse them.</p>