Act II. _Agathe's_ room in the head ranger's house. The girl has

gloomy forebodings. Even her sprightly relative, _Aennchen_, is unable to cheer her up. At last _Max_, whom she has been awaiting, comes. Very soon, however, he says he is obliged to leave, because he has shot a deer in the Wolf's Glen and must go after it. In vain the girls warn him against the locality, which is said to be haunted.

The scene changes to the Wolf's Glen, the haunt of _Zamiel_ the wild huntsman (otherwise the devil) to whom _Kaspar_ has sold himself, and to whom now he plans to turn over _Max_ as a victim, in order to gain for himself a brief respite on earth, his time to _Zamiel_ being up. The younger forester joins him in the Wolf's Glen and together they mould seven magic bullets, six of which go true to the mark. The seventh goes whither _Zamiel_ wills it.