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that Judas is not well, and that I am apprehensive of his death, which you must all testify & confirm. She accordingly put this scheme into practice at night, when her husband did all he could to comfort her, telling her that they were young, they might be parents of many children; and going up stairs to see the child, the maid then pinched its neck till it was black in the face, and thinking it in convulsions, gave it over to death. As soon as he was gone out in the morning, the mother & kinswoman took the child & went to the magician's house, in order to put the child to sea. They put on him many warm and rich garments, with an upper coat of oil, that no water might penetrate it; and the magician, on a piece of parchment, wrote the following words:
My Name is JUDAS.
which his mother sewed round his neck and put him into the boat, and shut
