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A DIABOLICAL POSSESSION
THERE WAS A GIRL WHO ENTERED A CONVENT SOMEWHERE
IN EUROPE. SHE SEEMED
TO ACT SO STRANGELY THAT THE EXTIRE COMMUNITY WONDERED. ONE
EVENING SHE WALKED UP THE WALL AND SLITHERED ACROSS THE CEILING LIKE
A SNAKE. ON THE FOLLOWING MORNING SHE WAS DISMISSED AND AS SHE LEFT
THROUGH THE FRONT DOOR SHE DECLARED THAT SHE HAD GIVEN HER SOUL TO
THE DEVIL.
Submitter comment:
MY INFORMANT CLAIMS TO HAVE OBTAINED THIS INFORMATION FROM
ANOTHER SISTER WHO IN TURN CLAIMED TO HAVE SEEN THE INCIDENT
DESCRIBED ABOVE.
Where learned: SAINT JOSEPH CONVENT
Keyword(s): POSSESSION BY THE DEVIL
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Devil Demon |
Date learned: 00-00-1962
I WISH NOT WHAT IS ANOTHER'S, BUT I WILL NOT GIVE
UP MY OWN.
Keyword(s): POSSESSION
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Proverb
You can't have your cake and eat it too.
Data entry tech comment:
Motifs added by TRD
James Callow comment:
Original BN [V300] crossed out. Replaced wtih current classification
The words Have and Eat are both circled with the word [REVERSE??] pointing to them.
Located in pile marked Duplicates and Other Rejects
Keyword(s): Cake ; Eat ; GLUTTONY ; Own ; PARADOX ; POSSESSION ; Spoiled
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Proverb
You can't have your cake and eat it too.
Data entry tech comment:
Motifs added by TRD
James Callow comment:
original BN [V600] crossed out. Replaced with current classification
The word [Reverse??] is written across the top of the entry.
Keyword(s): Cake ; Consume ; Eat ; Eat ; have ; Own ; PARADOX ; POSSESSION ; Spoiled
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |