Do you remember at Holmwood I called you Michaela, because you were so fair, like the girl in the opera? Now, this type-writer girl is dark, and she has been playing Carmen to you - stealing your love away from you by her clever ways.

Well I am glad I am ſo acquit of this tinder Boy. / His ſtealth was too open, his filching was like / An vnskilfull ſinger, he kept not time.

This new, magnified role of Satan heralded and paved the way for momentous transmutations in Jewish satanology — while in Job and Zechariah, Satan sought to incite Yahweh against man, in the First Book of Chronicles he had already moved man against Yahweh.

To this sect belong also the Skakounui, or Jumpers. […] They refuse to take an oath, and will not bear arms, deeming it sinful to shed human blood.