The crime they were planning was to send cutthroats to me at night who were to kill me while I slept, which was also attempted in my sleep in the following manner. There was in my dream a certain known friend who seemed to be lying with me. And as I lay unawares, thinking him to be a friend and fearing nothing at all, assuming it to be very safe to lie near him, he suddenly flung himself forward upon my head, his head and mouth at the back of my neck, trying to bite me with his mouth and suck out blood as tigers do, and thus to kill me like a bloodsucker. But beyond attempting and wanting to, he could do nothing, for I awoke. In my sleep I also noticed a knife in my hand, but at the time it was my intention to throw the knife away, but not at all to harm him. Having awakened, I saw a sheep behind me, which turned into a dog. As it became more and more a dog, it stretched its mouth forward toward me, and then disappeared. So the cutthroats have that nature that when they cannot [use] knives, they bite with their teeth, and are symbolized by dogs. Presently it was asked who the criminal person was, but he has not yet been discovered-namely, the one who had inspired him who was with me to attempt this. It is his nature to cast blame on all the innocent people he knows. 1748, 29 Aug.