. Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern. ng them, and bitingthem, and stinging them with all their might, and through everyjingle I saw fiends smite burning nails of fire into their also saw fiends drawing down the skin of their shoulders liketo pokes, and cutting them off, and drawing them to the headsof those they cut them from, all burning as fire. And then Isaw the women that had side trails behind them, and the sidetrails cut off by the fiends and burned on their head; and sometook of the cutting all burning and stopped therewith theirmouths, their noses, and
. Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern. ng them, and bitingthem, and stinging them with all their might, and through everyjingle I saw fiends smite burning nails of fire into their also saw fiends drawing down the skin of their shoulders liketo pokes, and cutting them off, and drawing them to the headsof those they cut them from, all burning as fire. And then Isaw the women that had side trails behind them, and the sidetrails cut off by the fiends and burned on their head; and sometook of the cutting all burning and stopped therewith theirmouths, their noses, and their ears. I saw also their gay chap-lets of gold and pearls and precious stones turned into nails ofiron, burning, and fiends with burning hammers smiting theminto their heads.** These were proud and vain people. Thenhe saw another fire, where the fiends were putting out peopleseyes and pouring molten brass and lead into the sockets, andtearing off their arms and the nails of their feet and hands,and soldering them on again. This was the doom of SABINE BARING-GOULD j. _ William saw other fires wherein the devils were executing tor-tures varied and horrible on their unfortunate victims. We needfollow him no further. At the end of the fifteenth century the Purgatory in LoughDerg was destroyed by orders of the Pope, on hearing thereport of a monk of Eymstadt in Holland, who had visited it,and had satisfied himself that there was nothing in it moreremarkable than in any ordinary cavern. The Purgatory wasclosed on St. Patricks Day, 1497; but the belief in it sospeedily banished from popular superstition. Calderon made itthe subject of one of his dramas; and it became the subject ofnumerous popular chap-books in France and Spain, where duringlast century it occupied in the religious belief of the people pre-cisely the same position which is assumed by the marvelousvisions of heaven and hell sold by hawkers in England at thepresent day. THE CORNISH WRECKERS From W
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