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148 [Doc. 10.
SWEDENBORG’S ANCESTRY.
me.
was brought to him one day, on his wife’s estate of Starbo, in
the parish of Norrberke, a servant- girl named Kerstin, who
was very “ strangely affected," and who begged of him,
by virtue of his office, to deliver her from her tribulations and
afflictions. Swedberg prayed with her upon bended knees, and
read with her, when she became “ sound and cheerful
, and
was altogether freed." Three years afterwards this same
servant-girl came to him to Brunsbo, and desired to serve in
his house. She was accepted. Another girl one day quarrelled
with her; when she became so embittered, that she threatened
to go and destroy herself. She went into the drying kiln,
for the purpose of suffocating herself. " Towards two o’clock,”
Swedberg says, "a feeling of anxiety came over .me while
I was sitting in my study, and writing. My feeling of
anxiety for this Kerstin increased more and more, when
yet there was no cause for such an apprehension, inasmuch
as I did not know what had happened to her. I became
suddenly troubled about her, as if a fire had been kindled in
I asked where Kerstin was ? They answered, that
no one had seen her, and that she must be in the drying kiln .
The door was locked, and the smoke was issuing from every
hole and chink. After the door had been forced, Kerstin was
found lying on the drying bench, with her face downwards,
and in the thickest smoke, so that we were almost suf
focated. Her arms and legs were stretched out. I called,
I shrieked. No motion, no sound.
, We laid her upon the
bed like a stock . Then I sobbed, and called out with a
loud voice, Kerstin; wake up and arise, in the name of Jesus
Christ! Immediately she became conscious, received life, raised
herself up, and began to talk . Afterwards I strengthened
her with God’s Word, and gave her a good draught of Rhenish
wine; whereupon she went, and followed her occupation ."
In another place he continues, " It must have been owing to
this, that a report spread throughout the whole country, yea,
abroad to Holland, England, and other places, in the years
1712 and 1713, that through a little hole in a window -pane
I had driven out the devil, who had come to me at Brunsbo
in the form of a cavalier, and spoken with me about the
condition of Sweden, and what course the war would take.
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