2494. There were certain spirits, or there was a certain society of spirits that had been with me for several days, if not a week or two, whose speech was not so manly, but as if it had womanly and at the same time childlike speech mixed into it. At the start I assumed from the speech that they were good spirits, but when I noticed their tricks, I realized that they were thoroughly deceitful, for they were studying whatever cunning trick they could devise and immediately put into effect.