723. CONCERNING A CERTAIN GENUS OF SPIRITS WHO PRACTICE NOTHING BUT ROBBERIES AND COMMIT BUTCHERIES. AND CONCERNING THOSE OF THE SAME GENUS WHO THEREFORE SEEM TO THEMSELVES TO FLEE INTO CITIES AND SO THEY DWELL IN A GREAT CITY There was shown me a genus of wandering spirits who do nothing but commit depredations and robberies. There first appeared to me a spirit clothed in dark blue with a twisted cap of the same color upon his head, such as certain Turks wear. He came to me and shook his right hand. Another spirit then said to me that he must flee, and that he very greatly feared those who do nothing but seek men, and when they find them, torture, slay with the sword, torment, burn with fire, boil, and cruelly treat all whom they meet. But he said in regard to him who shook his hand, that such a one is wont to appear to them and admonish them to beware of those robbers, for they are then at hand.