232. THE PUNISHMENT OF SORCERESSES It appeared to me during sleep, that a certain sorceress was using her sorceries to take away true love, and thus to render a man weak. When I awoke the sorceress appeared, and having been recognized, was delivered over to the punishment due, which was so horrible that I could never have imagined that there could be such a punishment. It was said to me that there was that punishment only that the angels might inquire into her criminal deeds: and she was of such a nature that she was gradually dissolved into horrible serpents or snakes, and the whole woman went away into them and was thus rejected from the faces [of the angels]. 1747, Nov. 3, o.s.