Into that same place a black spirit was let down because he could not be admitted into the other hell, perhaps for the reason that he was still lingering with spirits above. For he could not be sunk down there, so he was let down here. But the spirits there fled away, saying that because he was black, he was a robber, who would kill them. He had the kind of mark on him that would cause them to flee from him as from a murderer, but when he told them he would not kill them, they still did not dare to remain. They would rather, as they said, relinquish their riches, which they seemed to themselves to have accumulated there, and give them up to be plundered-for they fear greatly for their lives-yet guarding lest he plunder what they have in their boxes.