1150. THE PERSECUTION OF THE INNOCENT PRODUCES THE STENCH OF WALL LICE At times I have smelt the horrid stench of wall lice when yet there was nothing of the kind there as I very well knew. But after I perceived that such a stench was diffused from some fault of spirits, I was instructed by living experience which confirmed that such a stench represents the persecution of innocence; for there were those who have persecuted infants and wanted to drive them away, hence there was of once such a stench. 1748, Mar. 3.