"...then I who am Solomon praised the Lord and ordered a further spirit to appear. So before me came a demon with the likeness of a man, but headless-'And I said to him, 'Who art thou?' He said, I am a demon, I asked him which, and he replied : 'I am envy, I eat heads, for I seek a head for myself, I have not consumed enough, and I desire a head like thine.' 'I, Solomon, then put the seal upon him, holding my hand to his breast.' Then the devil jumped and fell and moaned, and said, 'Alas, what is become of me? O oryias, treachery, I cannot see!' And I said : 'I am Solomon, tell me how thou canst see without a head?' He said : 'Through my feelings.' - I asked him how he could speak, he said- 'O Solomon, King, I am a voice myself, for I have obtained the voices of innumerable men. I broke the hearts of the so-called dumb, on the eighth day after their birth. I can do things at the crossroads, though I am dangerous. I can seize and cut off a man's head like a sword-slash, and I put it on myself. I also send disease to the feet and cause sores..."
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