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Rh and many other horrible words he uſed, till the devil came indeed, transformed into the shape of a tall black man, terrible of countenance, and before him there was ſuch a fearful noiſe and wind, that the people were greatly afraid the church would have fallen on their heads; but without doing the leaſt hurt to any of the reſt, he only took away the old prieſt, his devoted bond-ſlave, and carried him ſo far, that he was never heard of. The biſhop of Rugenſtine's brother hardly eſcaped his hands; for he came to fetch him, but he defending himſelf with his ſword, wounded his own body, and very narrowly ſaved his life. After this, there were many viſions ſeen about the city, as armies of men ſeeming ready to enter and ſurprize them, ſo that happy was be who could ſecure himself in a corner. At another time the like noiſe was heard in the church, while they were baptizing a child, and all this for the abominable curſing and blaſphemy of the profane prieſt.—Beard's Theatre.

XXVI. At Oſter, a village in Germany, there happened a moſt ſtrange and fearful judgment upon a woman who gave herſelf to the devil, both body and ſoul, and uſed horrible curſings and oaths both againſt herſelf and others, which deteſtable cuſtom the practiſed upon all occaſions, but more eſpecially at a marriage in that village upon St. John Baptiſt's day; and though the whole company exhorted her to leave off that monſtrous villanny, yet ſhe would not be perſuaded, but continued therein till all the people were ſet down at dinner, and were very merry; when the devil having got full poſſeſſion of her, ſuddenly appeared, and taking her away before them all, tranſported her into the air with moſt horrible out cries and roarings; and in that manner he carried her round about the town,