[Satan’s Invisible World Contents]
THis is a known passage, which happened in the year 1659, at Crossen in Silesia. This is a part of Germany, which long since was under the Polonians, but is now subject to the Crown of Bohemia. The chief Magistrate of that town at that time was the Princes Elizabeth Charlotta, a person famous in her generation. In the Spring of the aforesaid year, one Christopher Monig, a Native of Serbest, a town belonging to the Princes of Anhalt, servant to an Apothecary, died and was buried with the usual Ceremonies of the Lutheran Church. A few dayes after his decease, a shape exactly like him in face, cloathes, stature, meen, &c. appeared in the Apothecaries shop, where he would set himself down, and walk sometimes, and take Boxes, Pots, Glasses from the Shelves, and set them again in their places, and sometimes try and examine the goodness of the Medicines, weigh them in a pair of Scales, pound the Drugs with a mighty noise in the Mortar. Nay serve the People, that came with their Bills to the Shop, take their Money, and lay it up safe in the Counter. In a word, do all things that a Journey-man in such cases uses to do. He looked very ghastly upon these that had been his Fellow-servants, who were afraid to say any thing to him. And his Master being sick at the time of the Gout, he was often very troublesome to him, would take the Bills that were brought him, out of his hand, snatch away the Candle sometimes, and put it behind the Stove. At last, he took a cloak that hung in the Shop, put it on, and walked abroad, but minding no body in the Streets, entered into some of the Citizens houses, and thrust himself into their company, especially of such as he had formerly known, yet saluted no Body, nor spoke to any one, but to a Maid servant, whom he met with hard by the Church-yeard, and desired her to go home to his Masters house, and dig in a ground chamber, where she would find an inestimable treasure. But the Maid amazed at the sight of him, sounded, whereupon he lift her up, but left such a mark upon her flesh, with lifting her, that it was to be seen for some time after. The Maid having recovered her self, went home, but fell desperatly sick upon it, and in her sickness discovered what Monig had said to her: and accordingly they digged in the place, she had named, but found nothing but on old decayed Pot with an Hematites, or Bloodstone in it. The Princes hereupon caused the young mans Body to be digged up, which they found putrified with purulent Matter flowing from it: and the Master being advised to remove the young Mans Goods, Linnens, Cloathes, and things, he left behind him, when he died out of the house, the Spirit thereupon left the House, and was seen no more. And this some People now living will give their Oath upon, who very well remember they saw him after his decease, and the thing being so notorious, there was instituted a Publick Disputation about it in the Academy of Leipsig, by one Henry Conradus, who disputed for his Doctors degree in the University. And this puts me in mind of an Apothecary at Reichenbach in Silesia, about fifteen years ago, who after his death appeared to diverse of his acquaintance and cryed out, that in his life time he had poysoned several men with his Drugs. Whereupon the Magistrates of the town took up his Body and burnt it; which being done, the Spirit disappeared, and was seen no more.
