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o’ midnight they ran one from the other and howled like
a pack of werewolves or some such devilry, and they
scoured like mad round in the woods and fens and brought
ill luck to men and beasts.”
“But they go to church on Sunday and have both pastor
and clerk just like us.”
“Ay, let a fool believe that! They go to church, the
filthy gang, like the witches fly to vespers, when the Devil
has St. John’s mass on Hekkenfell. No, they’re bewitched,
an’ nothing bites on ’em, be it powder or bullets. Half of
’em can cast the evil eye, too, else why d’ ye think the
smallpox, is always so bad wherever those hell-hounds ’ve set
their cursed feet? Answer me that, Gert Dyer, answer me
that, if ye can.”
The dyer was just about to reply, when Erik Lauritzen,
who for some time had been looking about uneasily,
spoke to him: “Hush, hush, Gert Pyper! Who’s the man
talking like a sermon yonder with the people standing
thick around him?”
They hurried to join the crowd, while Gert Dyer
explained that it must be a certain Jesper Kiim, who had
preached in the Church of the Holy Ghost, but whose
doctrine, so Gert had been told by learned men, was hardly
pure enough to promise much for his eternal welfare or
clerical preferment.
The speaker was a small man of about thirty with
something of the mastiff about him. He had long, smooth black
hair, a thick little nose on a broad face, lively brown eyes,
and red lips. He was standing on a doorstep, gesticulating
forcefully and speaking with quick energy though in
a somewhat thick and lisping voice.
“The twenty-sixth chapter of the Gospel according to
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