Genre:

Extract, Reportage

Publications extracted:

Monthly Magazine

Subjects:

Observation, Zoology, Supernaturalism

    The account begins: 'A german newspaper contains a strange account—avouched with as much apparent accuracy as those which concerned the mermaids lately seen off our own coast, or the sea-serpent that visits the shores of America—of a conversion lately worked upon the morals of a famous robber, by a supernatural visitation in the forest of Wildeshausen' (154).