1745. How this takes place was also shown to me. A certain spirit from their gang, one of the worst, clings to the person from behind, below the back of the head, and that gang operates through him or her, holding the person's inclination back from good and devout [activities], creating an annoyance with them. At the same time, they inspire reviling thoughts. I became aware and clearly felt [the presence] of such a spirit, and I spoke with him, saying that he was being held there by that gang so that through him, as a shared medium, they could carry out the operation just described. I was not only being held back, as I could feel, by the neck, but also away from the thinking and understanding of the words I was writing, as well as from being affected by them; and the thought was slipped into my mind, among others, that I should stop. So that I could see how this takes place, it was displayed to me in the case of a certain spirit, to whom the kind of spirit abovementioned came up in the form of a dark cloud and threw himself at that spirit's back, clinging to him at the back of the head, whereupon that spirit at once confessed to a most irritating annoyance.