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they actually have faces blackened by smoke,
and seem to wear soot-coloured clothes....
One of these ‘chimney sweep’ spirits came to
me, and begged me earnestly to pray for his
admission into heaven. ‘I don’t think,’ he
said, ‘I have done anything on account of
which I should be excluded. I have often
rebuked the inhabitants of earth, but after
rebuke and punishment, I have always given them
instruction.’
“The chastising, reforming, or instructing
spirits approach a man from the left side, lean
on his back, consult his book of memory, and
read his deeds and even his thoughts in it. For
when a spirit enters a man, he first of all takes
possession of his memory. If they behold an
evil deed or the intention to commit one, they
punish him with a pain in the foot or in the
hand, or the neighbourhood of the stomach, and
they do this with unexampled dexterity. A
shudder announces their approach.
“Besides inflicting pains in the limbs, they
employ a painful pressure against the navel,
which gives the sensation of being surrounded
with a prickly girdle; moreover, they sometimes
cause constrictions of the chest, which they
intensify to a terrible degree; finally, they inspire
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