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her shadow, a wandering corpse, wanders about
as a terrible warning.
They tell me of a man who, possessed by the
Devil, has so altered his personality that the
Evil One can make him utter blasphemies against
his will. After long search they discover a suitable
exorcist in a young Franciscan monk of
acknowledged purity of life. He prepares himself
by fast and penance; the great day comes,
and the possessed man makes his confession in
church before the people. Thereupon the young
monk sets to work and succeeds, after prayers
and conjurations which last an entire day, in
driving out the Devil. The alarmed spectators
have not ventured to relate the details of the
affair. A year later the young monk dies.
These and still more tragic narratives confirm
me in my conviction that this district has been
marked out as a place for penance, and there
must be some mysterious connection between
this neighbourhood and Swedenborg’s hell. Has
he perhaps visited this part of upper Austria,
and, just as Dante describes the region south of
Naples, drawn from nature in his account of
hell?
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