text:  When illuminated by the lurid glare of the lightning the gigantic osier figure filled with human beings sank into the flames--when the shouts of the multitude who stood in a dense circle around the spot the frenzied chants of the druids and the despairing shrieks of the dying victims were drowned in the sullen roar of the thunder--then must the fearful nature of their creed have stood forth in all its horrors