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129 Beasts and living creatures cry (S 2). 



130 The hurling down of fire on every land. 



liJl The hirds (S 4) scream at the streams of fire. 



132 The roaring of sea-monsters o.nd, fish at the ehhing of the ocean (S4), and 



before the heating of the fire. 



133 The nine orders of angels come (S 8). There is shouting and chorusing 



of the souls as they go to meet their bodies in the clay. 

 (134 The too-late repentance of sinners.) 



135 The shout of the dwellers in Hell [the devils] at casting forth souls 



to the assembly for judgment (cf. S 8). 



136 The croMhing of the seren lieuvens at being throvjn down through hloMs of 



fire (S 8). 



137 Tlie shaking of the earth at being turned v.p and. orer (S 8). 



138 Sinners and devils are locked in Hell. 



This contains many points of connexion with S, which 1 have italicized. 

 In form it also agrees with it in that it puts two of the signs (sects. 136, 137) 

 stiJjsequent to the coming of the angels, these two corresponding to those in 

 SB; while the section (135 ^ dealing with the dwellers in Hell may bean 

 echo of the passage in S 8. In sect. 133 the shouting of the souls, and their 

 going to the place where their bodies lie, seem to indicate that the writer was 

 acquainted with the interpolated passage in the sixth day of the Apocalypse 

 of Thomas. To the moon being turned to blood, the fall of a definite number 

 of stars, and the allusions to the fiery winds there are parallels in the Fifteen 

 Tokens published in F^vue Celtiqtt-e, xxviii, p. 308, already mentioned. 



There is a list of seven signs given by Wright in his Poems of Walter 

 Mapes, p. 347, which dates, he says, from the first quarter of the fourteenth 

 century. It is not of much importance. There is another seven-sign list, 

 probably late, which I have been unable to consult. It may be found in 

 Suchier, L'enfant sage (Dresden, 1910), p. 272. This reference I owe to 

 Dr. M. E. James. 



There is but one list of three signs known to me, which is not without 

 interest. It occurs in a series of fragments attributed to the Priscillianist 

 heretics ; these have been published in Revue Benedictine ^July, 1907), p. 325. 

 It runs as follows : — 



First day. — Snow and hail come on the earth, with great thunderings from 

 the terrible trumpet, and the dead arise. 

 Second day. — The sea will be dried up. 



