Luther says that these devilish brats may be generally known by their eating and drinking too much, and especially by their exhausting their mother's milk, but they may not develop any certain signs of their true parentage until eighteen or nineteen years old.

The Princess of Anhalt had a child which Luther imagined to be a changeling, and he therefore advised its being drowned, alleging that such creatures were only lumps of flesh animated by the devil or his angels.

Some one spoke of a monster which infested the Netherlands, and which went about smelling at people like a dog, and whoever it smelt died.

But those that were smelt did not see it, albeit the bystanders did.

The people had recourse to vigils and masses.