5308. CONCERNING OLD WOMEN WHO HAVE LIVED IN ALMSHOUSES;* AND CONCERNING BEGGARS. There were some women, many of whom, to the number of fifty or a hundred, appeared, in turn, at the angle between the north and west, and, from that mountain, continually infested all whom they saw, wishing to lead everyone, and thereby to possess them. They so infested me, frequently, from a desire of entering, by this means, into the world. * Or, possibly, "convents." - ED.