893. CONCERNING THOSE WHO RELATE TO THE PANCREATIC DUCT, THE HEPATIC DUCT, AND THE GALL BLADDER There are spirits who relate to these three members which are distinct one from the other, but set together according to the state of the spirits upon whom they operate. They are present especially at castigations and punishments which they wish as it were to direct. The worst of them are so stubborn that they never desist unless impelled by punishments or such things as terrify them, for they are afraid of punishments. They then promise all things, and that they will do so no more, but immediately afterwards they return to the same nature. They are those who have clung most tenaciously to their own opinions and phantasies, but who nevertheless do not act from hatred, but from natural depravity. Such spirits appear as little old women such as are wont to grow old in cupidities so as to become tenacious in them. When they are in their natural state they then think nothing, but they inhere in these things. I do not know whether they are delighted with anything else than being allowed to be in such activities, and to chastise, scourge, bite, and to act in a like foul manner, as do those biles, especially that of the gall bladder. They only desire to be in foul things. 1748, Feb. 20.