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WONDERFUL HISTORY OF A SWEDISH WOMAN. 301
stay, it was evident that these animals could never before
have been acquainted with mankind, and that the dread
of man is not innate in brutes, but must be grounded on
long experience.
Wonderful History of a young Swedish Woman and her
extraordinary Visions.
The following account of a young Swedish female, who
lived six years without food, and had of God during that
time, strange and secret communications at Noraby, near
Malmo in Schonen, was transmitted by the minister of
that parish to the bishop of Skara in West Gothland,
and laid before the Ecclesiastical Court at Lunden, and
was fully confirmed by his excellency Field Marshal Stein-
bock, by whom she was frequently visited. It was origi-
nally written in Swedish, and printed at Skara ; the whole
being attested by the Bishop of that place, in a letter to
the Right Reverend Father in God, John Lord Bishop of
Bristol.
The second Sunday after Epiphany, in the year 1705,
Estred, daughter of Esther Jon, was overwhelmed with
grief, and shed a flood of tears at church, when she heard
a minister (M. J. Johanneus) discourse about the cross and
sufferings of Jesus Christ. The next day she went with
her master, who carried corn to the market. Being upon
the road, she felt a pain in all her limbs, and sweated
though the weather was extremely cold, and with great
difficulty reached home. Her illness increased more and
more, by a daily running of blood, through the mouth
and nose. She took nothing but a little milk and whey
for about the space of a year, and since that time she ate
nothing at all. In the same year 1705, about Easter, her
parents having resolved to go to a conjurer without her
knowledge, the figure of a child about four years old
appeared by her bedside, bidding her not to comply with
the
stay, it was evident that these animals could never before
have been acquainted with mankind, and that the dread
of man is not innate in brutes, but must be grounded on
long experience.
Wonderful History of a young Swedish Woman and her
extraordinary Visions.
The following account of a young Swedish female, who
lived six years without food, and had of God during that
time, strange and secret communications at Noraby, near
Malmo in Schonen, was transmitted by the minister of
that parish to the bishop of Skara in West Gothland,
and laid before the Ecclesiastical Court at Lunden, and
was fully confirmed by his excellency Field Marshal Stein-
bock, by whom she was frequently visited. It was origi-
nally written in Swedish, and printed at Skara ; the whole
being attested by the Bishop of that place, in a letter to
the Right Reverend Father in God, John Lord Bishop of
Bristol.
The second Sunday after Epiphany, in the year 1705,
Estred, daughter of Esther Jon, was overwhelmed with
grief, and shed a flood of tears at church, when she heard
a minister (M. J. Johanneus) discourse about the cross and
sufferings of Jesus Christ. The next day she went with
her master, who carried corn to the market. Being upon
the road, she felt a pain in all her limbs, and sweated
though the weather was extremely cold, and with great
difficulty reached home. Her illness increased more and
more, by a daily running of blood, through the mouth
and nose. She took nothing but a little milk and whey
for about the space of a year, and since that time she ate
nothing at all. In the same year 1705, about Easter, her
parents having resolved to go to a conjurer without her
knowledge, the figure of a child about four years old
appeared by her bedside, bidding her not to comply with
the