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The demon Belfagor tests whether marriage is hell by marrying Candida in disguise as a wealthy nobleman. Candida escapes with her lover Baldo, but Belfagor sows doubt between them until a plea to the Madonna and miraculous bells restore their trust.
When the Faun throws Enrico’s church bell into a lake, the bell maker despairs. Elf Rautendelein enters the human world and restores his strength. They fall in love, and Enrico abandons his wife Magda, who kills herself by jumping into the lake. Hearing the bell ring underwater, Enrico rejects Rautendelein. She becomes Ondino’s wife; later, as Enrico is dying, she visits him once more and kisses him.
Silvana, daughter of a woman accused of witchcraft, loves her stepson Donello. After her husband Basilio dies, his mother accuses Silvana of causing his death by sorcery. Unable to swear an oath of innocence, Silvana is condemned as a witch.
In Rome in 509 BC, Sextus Tarquinius, Brutus and Collatinus discuss their wives’ fidelity. Tarquinius becomes infatuated with Collatinus’s wife Lucrezia, enters her home and rapes her. The following day she asks Collatinus to avenge her and takes her life. Brutus leads a rebellion that overthrows the monarchy.
Mary, a prostitute, feels an overwhelming desire to travel to Jerusalem. There she repents her sins, and an angel instructs her to go to the desert and live in prayer. She remains there until old age. Saint Zosimas finds her as she is dying and, with a lion’s help, digs her grave.
The demon Belfagor tests whether marriage is hell by marrying Candida in disguise as a wealthy nobleman. Candida escapes with her lover Baldo, but Belfagor sows doubt between them until a plea to the Madonna and miraculous bells restore their trust.
When the Faun throws Enrico’s church bell into a lake, the bell maker despairs. Elf Rautendelein enters the human world and restores his strength. They fall in love, and Enrico abandons his wife Magda, who kills herself by jumping into the lake. Hearing the bell ring underwater, Enrico rejects Rautendelein. She becomes Ondino’s wife; later, as Enrico is dying, she visits him once more and kisses him.
Silvana, daughter of a woman accused of witchcraft, loves her stepson Donello. After her husband Basilio dies, his mother accuses Silvana of causing his death by sorcery. Unable to swear an oath of innocence, Silvana is condemned as a witch.
In Rome in 509 BC, Sextus Tarquinius, Brutus and Collatinus discuss their wives’ fidelity. Tarquinius becomes infatuated with Collatinus’s wife Lucrezia, enters her home and rapes her. The following day she asks Collatinus to avenge her and takes her life. Brutus leads a rebellion that overthrows the monarchy.
Mary, a prostitute, feels an overwhelming desire to travel to Jerusalem. There she repents her sins, and an angel instructs her to go to the desert and live in prayer. She remains there until old age. Saint Zosimas finds her as she is dying and, with a lion’s help, digs her grave.