of Spain.

They are still performed in Andalusia, and one written within a few years for such representation, was enacted at Seville, with great pomp of scenic effect, in the Holy Week of 1870.

Similar scenes are also witnessed by curious foreigners at the present day in the Ober-Ammergau of Bavaria.

These enable the traveller of to-day to realize the former history.
To introduce a comic element, the devil was made to appear with horns, hoof, and tail, to figure with grotesque malignity throughout the play, and to be reconsigned at the close to his dark abode by the divine power.
MORALITIES .-- As the people became enlightened, and especially as religious knowledge made progress, such childish shows were no longer able to satisfy them.

The drama undertook a higher task of instruction in the form of what was called a _morality_, or _moral play_.