Spiritual Experiences (Buss) n. 1260

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1260. Certain spirits above the head who were quite upright then wanted to pass judgment upon him, but they could not because they did not know of what quality he was. But his quality was then discovered. He was let down quite deeply into the lower earth, a little in front of the right foot, and there he dug a pit as those do who bury the dead in order to inter them there; thus a suspicion at once arose that he had done some deadly deed in his lifetime. There then appeared a funeral bier covered with a black cloth. It was not apparent who was laid upon the bier. Soon afterwards someone rising from it came to me and stated piously that he had died, and he was of the opinion that he had been killed by poison by that spirit who had dug the hole, because he had drunk wine with him in the evening, and soon after he had arrived home he was seized with a deadly sickness, and he had then thought that he had there drunk poison. He stated that he had thought this at the hour of his death, not knowing, however, whether it was [more than] a suspicion. Speaking very piously, he said that he had been a man of humble station, and therefore if that person had done this, he did it for the sake of testing the poison with which perhaps he wanted to kill others; thus he said nothing evil about him. He was content that he had died, for if he had lived longer he might perhaps have committed more sins.


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