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Examples of “ Nemesis ” 
Mans of Sannaboke in Smaland, a hard man; evil 
against his father. Man’s son dragged his father by the 
hair to throw him out of his own house. When the 
father came to the door, he cried out, “ Drag me no farther; 
I did not drag my father any farther.” The son answered 
God’s death, thou dragged thy father to the door, I will 
drag thee out of the door.” This happened in my birth¬ 
place, in my childhood. 
Two unmarried women, Friesendorf, lived at Hammarby 
before me, died 1725. Were always so perverse that they 
could not bear each other; they divided the estate in two. 
When one died, the other rejoiced and said she would 
mourn in scarlet, but in four days she too lay dead; they 
were buried on the same day in one grave. Then they 
first agreed. 
Captain Cinder [Sinclair] when imprisoned, stabbed to 
death an under officer, Lod, and by legal process escaped 
[judgment for] the murder. Captain Cinder had so 
mortal a hatred for the Russians, that he said he did 
not wish to go to heaven if any Russians went there. 
(Similarly Artedi had mortal hatred of the Dutch, when he 
was drowned at Amsterdam.) He was sent with despatches 
to Turkey, to stir up the Turks against the Russians. 
Miinnich, Premier Minister in Petersburg, had his portrait 
made, set four officers in ambush at Ingerstedt in Germany, 
one of whom, Keller, murdered him. 
A man freed a thief from the gallows. The same man 
was taken by enemies and was to be hanged, but a rope 
was wanting; the thief came and gave a rope. 
Divinations 
Carl XII. had his fortune told by General Carl Cronstedt 
by “ puncture ” that he would be killed before the end of 
November, though amongst his trusty friends, the officers. 
One of Cronstedt’s friends said to him on the last day of 
November: “ It is now the last day of November, and 
the 'King is still alive.” Cronstedt answered:: “That is 
so, but the time is not past.” At night he was killed at 
Fredrikshald. But some think that it was the same 
Cronstedt who shot the King at Fredrikshald, but really 
the French colonel Stickart. 
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