1251. These spirits do not indeed strike such terror as do the robbers in that space or desert, concerning whom above [n. 761], but by their phantasies, they as it were take away the life of those whom they meet. I perceived this as though they were taking away the interior vital respiration of my body, so that unless I had known the fact I might almost have been persuaded that they would be able to take my life. The spirits who are still living in their phantasies scarcely suppose otherwise, and thus they are in the anguish of death. 1748, Mar. 9.