5566. As a certain spirit came towards me I saw what looked like a black cloud that had stars around it which were wavering. Falsities are meant when stars that are wavering appear in the next life, but truths when those that are firmly fixed appear there. I noticed that this was a spirit who wanted to get near me; and when he did so he struck fear into me, an ability that certain spirits, especially robbers, possess. It was that fear which led me to deduce that he was a robber. While he was near me he sought to do all he could with the aid of magical devices to disturb me, but without success. He stretched out his hand to exercise the power he imagined himself to possess, but that action achieved absolutely nothing. After that I was shown what his face was like. He had no face but instead something very black, where a mouth appeared, opened wide in a dreadful and fierce manner to produce gaping jaws in which a row of teeth stood out. In short it was like a mad dog with its jaws opened wide, so wide that it had jaws but no face.