1866. What they eventually turn into was also shown me. Their face becomes horrible-not a face, but a withered something, having a foul color, like woody fiber, without any sign of a face. It is so extremely monstrous that one could never tell that this had been a human being, much less a face. About the cheeks there is a wooliness (mose hvit*). They said that these spirits eventually put on this kind of face, so that anyone would shudder at seeing them. For the way they are in society, namely, toward fellow human beings, is how they are within themselves, and so, they likewise put themselves, and their own inner qualities, to death. * Swedish for "white moss."