2662. About a turmoil under the sole of the left foot
Several times I have heard some commotion beneath the sole of the left foot, even to the point where there was a clear sensation as of trembling waves. And because I had felt this several times, I did not want to inquire what it was, supposing it to be the murmur of some crowd, [but] now I did ask what it was. Thereupon came the reply that they were those coming from the world who had been obsessed by the passion for fighting and killing people. They seem to themselves to behave in the same way in the other life, seeming to themselves to kill, to mangle one another, to cut off each other's hands and arms, and so to fight as they had liked doing in life. There they are treated miserably, actually feeling the pains, until they are no longer obsessed by such a passion. 1748, 21 July.