Of dreaming. Men will walk and not move, they will speak with one not present, they will hear one who does not speak. Of the shadow that moves with man. One will see forms and figures of men or animals that will follow those animals and men wherever they flee; and the motion of the one will be as much as that of the other. But it will seem a marvellous thing, the various sizes into which they transform themselves. Of the shadows of the sun and of the reflection in water at one and the same time. Many times one will see one man become three, and all follow him, and often the surest one abandons him. Of the chests that hold many treasures. Within nuts and trees and other plants the greatest treasures will be found, which lie hidden there. Of putting out the light for one going to bed. Many, by sending out their breath too swiftly, will lose their sight and soon all their senses. Of the little bells of mules that hang near their ears. In many parts of Europe instruments of various size will be heard making diverse harmonies, with great fatigue to whoever hears them closest. Of asses. Great labours will be rewarded with hunger, thirst, discomfort, blows and prickings, curses and great insults. Of soldiers on horseback. Many will be seen carried by great animals at swift course to the ruin of their life and swiftest death. Through the air and over the land, animals of various colours will be seen carrying men with fury to the destruction of their life. Of the stars of spurs. By reason of the stars [rowels] men will be seen as swift as any swift animal. The stick that is dead. The movement of the dead will make many living flee with pain and weeping, with cries. Of the tinderbox. With stone and iron, things will be made visible that before were not seen.

Of oxen that are eaten. The lords of estates will eat their own labourers. Of beating the bed to remake it. Men will come to such ingratitude that whoever gives them lodging for no price will be loaded with blows, so that a great part of the entrails is dislodged from their place and goes turning about the body. Of the things eaten that are first killed. Their nourisher will be killed by them and scourged with pitiless death. Of mirroring city walls in the water of their moats. The high walls of great cities will be seen upside down in their moats. Of water running turbid and mixed with earth, of dust and mist mixed with air, and of fire mixed with its heat in each. All the elements will be seen mixed together in great revolution, running now toward the centre of the world, now toward the sky, now from the southern parts with fury toward the cold north, sometimes from east to west, and so from one hemisphere to the other. In every point a division of the two hemispheres can be made. All men will change hemisphere at once. In every point there is a division from east to west. All animals will move from east to west, and so from north to south interchangeably, and so conversely. Of the motion of waters that carry dead timber. Bodies without soul will move of themselves and carry with them innumerable generations of the dead, taking the riches from the living around them. Of eggs which, being eaten, cannot make chicks. O how many there will be to whom being born is forbidden! Of fish eaten with their roe. Infinite generation will be lost through the death of the pregnant. Of animals that are castrated. To a great part of the male species, their testicles being taken from them, begetting will be forbidden. Of beasts that make cheese. The milk will be taken from the little children. Of the sows [that are cut]. To a great part of the Latin females the teats will be cut off together with their life, they having their little children in their body. Of the weeping done on Good Friday. In all parts of Europe great peoples will weep for the death of a single man, dead in the Orient.

Of knife-handles made of ram's horn. In the horns of animals cutting irons will be seen, with which the life of many of their own species will be taken. Of the night, in which no colour is known. It will come to such a pass that no difference will be known among colours, but all will be made of a black quality. Of swords and lances, which of themselves never harm anyone. He who of himself is mild and without any offence will become fearful and fierce through evil company, and will most cruelly take the life of many people, and would kill more, did not bodies without soul, come out of caverns, defend them — that is, iron cuirasses. Of snares and traps. Many dead will move with fury and will seize and bind the living and keep them for their enemies, seeking their death and destruction. Of metals. There will come out of dark and gloomy caverns that which will put the whole human species into great anguish, perils and death. To many of its followers, after many troubles, it will give delight, and whoever is not its partisan will die in misery and calamity. This will commit infinite treasons; this will urge and persuade wicked men to murders, robberies and enslavements; this will hold its own partisans in suspicion; this will take the state from free cities; this will take the life of many; this will make men torment one another with many frauds, deceits and treasons. O monstrous beast, how much better it would be for men if you returned to hell! For this the great forests will be stripped of their trees; for this infinite animals will lose their life. Of fire. From a small beginning will be born that which will swiftly grow great. This will esteem no created thing, but rather with its power will have almost everything in its power to transform from its being into another. Of ships that sink. Very great bodies without life will be seen carrying with fury a multitude of men to the destruction of their life.

Of reapers. There will be many who move one against the other holding in hand the cutting iron. These will do each other no harm but weariness, for as much as the one presses forward, so much the other draws back; but woe to whoever comes between them, for in the end he will be left cut in pieces. The silk-reeling machine. One will hear the doleful cries, the loud shrieks, the hoarse and stifled voices of those who will be tormented and stripped and at last left naked and without motion; and this will be by cause of the motor that turns everything. Of putting bread into and drawing it from the oven's mouth. Through all cities, lands, castles, villages and houses, out of desire to eat, one will be seen to draw their own food from one another's mouth without being able to make any defence. The tilled lands. One will see the earth turned upside down and gazing on the opposite hemispheres, and the caverns of most ferocious animals uncovered. Of sowing. Then a great part of the men who remain alive will throw the stored victuals out of their houses in free prey to the birds and land animals, without caring for them at all. Of the rains that make the muddied rivers carry away the lands. There will come from the sky that which will transmute a great part of Africa, which faces the sky toward Europe, and that of Europe toward Africa; and those of the provinces will mingle together with great revolution. Of brick- and lime-kilns. Second. At last the earth will turn red from the burning of many days, and the stones will be converted into ash. Of the timbers that burn. First. The trees and shrubs of the great forests will be converted into ash. And boiled fish. The water animals will die in the boiling waters. The olives that fall from the olive trees and give us the oil that makes light. There will descend with fury from the sky that which will give us nourishment and light. Of owls and screech-owls with which one fowls with birdlime. Many will perish from the smashing of the head, and their eyes will leap out over a great part of the head, by cause of fearful animals come out of the darkness. Of the flax that makes the paper of rags. That will be revered and honoured, and its precepts listened to with reverence and love, which before was despised, torn and tortured by many and diverse beatings. Of the books that teach precepts. Bodies without soul will give us, with their sentences, precepts useful for dying well. Of the beaten and scourged. Men will hide themselves under the bark of scraped plants, and there, crying out, will torment themselves with beatings of their limbs. Of lust. And they will rage after the fairest things to seek, possess and work their ugliest parts; whence, returned with harm and penitence to their senses, they will have great wonder at themselves.

Of the miser. There will be many who with all study and solicitude will pursue with fury that thing which has always frightened them, not knowing its malignity. Of men who, the older they grow, the more miserly they become — who, having little time to remain, ought to make themselves liberal. One will see, in those judged of most experience and judgement, that the less they need of things, the more avidly they seek and hoard them. Of the grave. (Tell it in the form of frenzy or delirium, of insanity of the brain.) Many will stay occupied in the labour of taking away from that thing which grows as much as it is taken away, and the more is put into it, the more it diminishes. Of the weight placed on the pillow. And in many bodies, on seeing the head lifted from them, one will see them manifestly grow, and on restoring the lifted head, at once their size diminishes. Of the catching of lice. And there will be many hunters of animals who, the more they catch, the fewer they will have; and so conversely, the more they will have, the fewer they catch. Of drawing water with two buckets on a single rope. And many will remain occupied who, the more they pull the thing downward, the more it flees in the contrary motion. The sausage that enters the guts. Many will make themselves a house of the guts and dwell within their own. The tongues of pigs and calves in the guts. O foul thing, that one animal will be seen to have its tongue in the backside of another! Of sieves made of animal skin. One will see the food of animals pass in through their skins on every side and penetrate from the opposite part down to the flat ground. Of the stuffing of geese. Of the lights carried before the dead. They will make light for the dead. Of the lanterns. The fierce horns of powerful bulls will defend the nocturnal light from the impetuous fury of the winds. Of the feathers in beds. The flying animals will support men with their own feathers. Of men who go upon trees, walking on pattens. The mud will be so great that men will walk upon the trees of their lands. Of the soles of shoes, which are of ox. One will see, in great part of the country, walking upon the skins of great animals. Of navigation. There will be great winds, by which the eastern things will become western, and those of the south, in great part mixed with the course of the winds, will follow it through long lands. Of the paintings of adored saints. Men will speak to men who hear not; they will have their eyes open and not see; they will speak to them and not be answered; they will ask grace of one who has ears and hears not; they will make light for one who is blind; they will speak to the deaf with great noise.