Art, Symbol & Imagination
The Afrit in the Pillar
A great winged figure rises above a column with both arms lifted, while a small armed company gathers below. The printed caption names the Afrit in the Pillar, and the surrounding passage concerns a punished supernatural being. Donnelly includes the scene among the legends he compares in Ragnarok. It illustrates that narrated tradition rather than an independently observed apparition.
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Illustrator not identified. "The Afrit in the Pillar" [editorial title]. In Ragnarok: The Age of Fire and Gravel, Ignatius Donnelly. Eleventh edition, 1887, R. S. Peale and Company. Source scan leaf 282. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0043-0280
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Illustrator not identified. The Afrit in the Pillar. Ragnarok: The Age of Fire and Gravel. Scan leaf 282. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0043-0280