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the waters discoloured all others where they came." In 1198, 

 and again in 1378, it rained blood in England. In 1399 in a 

 little town in Bedfordshire "it rained blood, the red drops 

 whereof appeared in sheets hung out to dry." In 1618 and 

 again in December, 1619, the water which runs through 

 the city of Sixto, in Hungary, was turned into blood, 

 and the ice therein was also blood-red. In the same year 

 the water in a ditch in Vienna appeared like blood " for 

 the space of eight days." In 1620, in Poland, it rained 

 blood so abundantly that " the drops fell very fast from the 

 tops of the houses." In 1622, in Darmstadt, trees were 

 found the leaves of which dropped blood. On the i6th of 

 July, 1622, in Wittenburg, it rained blood on the hands and 

 clothes of the laboring men and likewise upon trees, stones, 

 etc. In 1623 a well in Bohemia was for some days turned into 

 blood ; and in the same year, in Tursin, " the table, chairs 

 and walls of the parlour of a citizen's house all sweated blood so 

 that it began to run along the room," while in the towns of 

 Mayenfield and Maylantz the sickles and the hands of the la- 

 borers, as they were mowing in the fields, were seen to be 

 bloody. In 1624 it rained blood at Weinsham, in Bohemia, 

 and at Friburg, in Silesia. In May, 1631, the water was turned 

 into blood at Hall, in Lower Saxony ; " and about the middle 

 of this month this town was taken by Tilly * * and whilst 

 his army lay in the town one of his chief officers saw blood pro- 

 digiously dropping from the house wherein he lay." In 1632, in 

 Franestein (near Dresden), a woman who had bought some bread 

 and carried it home was surprised, when she came to cut it, to see 

 blood issue from it. In 1633, at Dobenshutz, in Althenburg, 

 " blood sprang out of a fish-pond with such a filthy savour that 

 if it were touched they could not wash off the stink in two or 

 three days." In 1634 it rained blood and brimstone at Berlin. 

 In November, 1635, in Holstein, "it rained thick blood whose 

 drops being used as ink represented true natural blood in 

 writing." In Isenach, in 1637, the conduit, situated in the 

 market-place, " instead of water suddenly poured out blood, 

 and so continued for two hours." At Weimar, in 1637, the 

 water was turned to blood. In 1640 "a pond in Cambridge 

 became red as blood, the water whereof being taken up in basons 

 remained still of the same colour," and at Bencastle, in Northum- 



