Spiritual Experiences (Odhner) n. 2741

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2741. When these want to rule over others and play the leading role, putting them under themselves, having been accustomed to doing this in bodily life, in the other life many become associated with them, whereby they have a huge aura, and because they seem to themselves to be capable of anything on their own-this because of various tricks they think up or discover-they are therefore those male and female spirits that are counted among sorceresses (or truldoms styggelser*). * Swedish for "witchcraft's abominations."


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