'having' him suffocated, cut in pieces, and, being put into the pot, began to cook him at the fire: which when the master of the kitchen had perceived, he began to curse the spirit; who, being irritated, the roast meat put on spits at the fire for the next days dinner of the bishop and courtiers, two horrible toads being thereupon squeezed, besprinkled with the poison and blood of those animals and being again affected with bitter. taunts, he precipitated him from on high, by the bridge, into a deep hole. Upon the walls of the city and castle diligently going round, in the nighttime, he forced all the guards to watch. A certain man, about to go a long way, when he had an unchaste wife, as if by way of joke, said to the spirit Hutgin: "Good fellow, I commend to thee my wife till I shall return, see thou guard her:" and when, the husband being absent, the woman would employ her portion in adultery, and tempted, successively, many lovers, so that this spirit, invisibly, always interposed in the midst, and the men being thrown from the bed upon the ground, permitted no one to arrive even at the touch of that woman. So the woman, every night, and almost every hour, in the whole time, always introduced new lovers: whom, nevertheless, the spirit, as soon as they attempted to touch her, cast far off upon the ground.
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