Animals will be seen on the earth who will always be fighting against each other with the greatest loss and frequent deaths on each side. And there will be no end to their malignity; by their strong limbs we shall see a great portion of the trees of the vast forests laid low throughout the universe; and, when they are filled with food the satisfaction of their desires will be to deal death and grief and labour and wars and fury to every living thing; and from their immoderate pride they will desire to rise towards heaven, but the too great weight of their limbs will keep them down. Nothing will remain on earth, or under the earth or in the waters which will not be persecuted, disturbed and spoiled, and those of one country removed into another. And their bodies will become the sepulture and means of transit of all they have killed.
O Earth! why dost thou not open and engulf them in the fissures of thy vast abyss and caverns, and no longer display in the sight of heaven such a cruel and horrible monster.
1297.
PROPHECIES.
There will be many which will increase in their destruction.
*(The Ball of Snow rolling over Snow.)*
There will be many who, forgetting their existence and their name, will lie as dead on the spoils of other dead creatures.
*(Sleeping on the Feathers of Birds.)*
The East will be seen to rush to the West and the South to the North in confusion round and about the universe, with great noise and trembling or fury.
*(In the East wind which rushes to the West.)*