Images

The Fair Melusine, oil on canvas painting by German artist Julius Hübner, 1844. National Museum, Poznan. The painting depicts the moment in the legend when Raymondin spies on his wife, Melusine, and discovers she is half-serpent...

A modern statue of Melusine by Serge Ecker in Luxembourg.

Melusine's secret discovered, illustration from folio 19 of the illuminated manuscript Français 24383 of The Romance of Melusine by Jean d'Arras, 15th century. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris.

Eusebius, illustration from fol. 1v from the T'oros Roslin Gospel Manuscript, created by Armenian illuminator T'oros Roslin for the hermitage of Ark'akaghin in Cilicia, in 1262. Walters Art Museum, Baltimore.

Whole and ground nutmeg.

Location of the so-called Spice Islands, or the Maluku Islands or the Moluccas in Indonesia.

Mace surrounding nutmeg seed.

Roman legionary from Legio XI Claudia, 2nd-3rd century CE. Silistra Museum of History, Bulgaria.

Reenactors of Legio XI Claudia Pia Fidelis. Photo taken on 8 February 2009.

Daniel Day-Lewis, Russell Means, and Eric Schweig in The Last of the Mohicans (1992). Photo by Morgan Creek Productions. The movie is set in 1757 during the French and Indian War.