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The Floral King. 143
Academy of Science, that water has been changed into
blood, and how frequently I have pronounced my
opinion against this. It is difficult to say anything
in this matter since it is known how the defunct
Bishop Svedberg espouses this when he calls it an
Abyssum Satane; he says, positively, that it is not
anything natural, and that when God allows such a
miracle to take place, Satan endeavours, his tools also,
the ungodly, self-relying, self-sufficient, and wordly people
to make it signify nothing. Regarding this see also
’ Archiat Hiener’s (Urban Hjarne) Flock on Water,
who has various tales about water being turned into
blood. It is not only with us that water has been
turned into blood, it has happened in France (Svamm:
quar Fo) in Holland and Leyden, that the people
were appalled at the water being turned into blood.
In England, Durham, etc., and Sweden it is more
common than anywhere else. Here in the Univer-
sity garden are three ponds, the largest of. which
is free from aquatic plants, every summer at the
solstice turns into blood, and that every morning
and evening when it is calm. This water-blood
is strange in two ways; I have shown it,
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