"Evil spirits will consume you. They will send you sickness and sores and you will die!"

As the woman cursed him, the man sank to his knees, then fell to the ground, his mouth gagged with dirt. Tortured by spirits, consumed by fevers, he crawled slowly away in agony.

But the did not, he would not die! And as Vardis Fisher continues his magnificent Testaments of Man, Adam and the Serpent tells of Man's capture of his heritage...as master of the Earth he lives on and of the Woman he lives with.