Excerpt from The Heretic, Or the German Stranger, Vol. 3 of 3: An Historical Romance of the Court of Russia in the Fifteenth CenturyMamon did not rest contented with the ordinary means of man in order to destroy his foe: he sought others in the supernatural world, he had recourse even to the Fiend. He had heard that the adepts of the Jewish heresy, which had its nest at Moscow, were in possession of cabalistic or necromantic secrets, by which they could perform wonders, and determined on having recourse to the power of these enchanters.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.