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Romantic horror in Victorian fiction: from the archive, 24 July 1844. The name of witchcraft is pregnant with fearful, yet delightful associations to that large class of romance readers, who, like the unhappy Orra, take pleasure in feeling "the chilled blood shoot cold through every vein.
" It will at once recall to their memory those wild and gloomy legends, in which the sorcerer becomes the mysterious accomplice of supernatural and malignant beings; and goes forth armed with their powers, and inspired with their cold and passionless malevolence - in appearance a living mortal, but in reality a soul already doomed to perdition. We shall be sorry to disappoint such anticipations; but it is certain that a most lamentable difference exists between the witchcraft of modern romance and the witchcraft of ancient superstition. The contrast between the chivalrous hard heart of uncas, and the dirty, dishonest, inhospitable savages with whom Mr. It is not that the superstitions of former days are deficient in terrific interest, or even in poetical beauty.