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ihaggy, and rough, and monftrouily deformed." According to a mediaeval
Rory, which was told in different forms, a great man's cellar was once
haunted by thefe demons, who drank all his Wine, while the owner was
totally at a lots to account for its rapid difappearance. After many
unfuccefsful attempts to difcover the depredators, forne one, probably
fufpedting the truth, fuggeited that he ihould mark one of the barrels
with holy water, and next morning a demon, much refembling the
defcription given by Giraldus, was found Ruck faft to the barrel. It is
told all'0 of Edward the Confefibr, that he once went to fee the tribute
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called the Danegeld, and it was ihown to him all packed up in great
barrels ready to be fent away-for this appears to have been the ufual
mode of tranfporting large quantities of money. The faintly king had
the faculty of being able to fee fpiritual beings-a fort of fpiritual fecond-
fight
"Formam quandam villosam, hispidam, et hirsutam,
deformem." Girald. Camb., Itiner. Camb., lib. i. c. 5-
adeoque
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