6019. ¹ About Charles XI ² and his queen

When I was in the state of the spirit in the night, I was led by a companion to a certain house. It was built of wood and well designed, and I believed [the resident] to be Charles XI's queen, but previously it had been the wife of some priest. Nevertheless, she was alone without a husband; she lived there. And when I entered I saw on the table a piece of needlework done by her, a beautiful piece. And my companion then spoke with her about a certain thing they held in common. It pertained to that district. She informed him about this, but it was such by a thing as I could not recall in a natural state; it was peculiar to a spiritual state. After this I awoke and spoke with her in a natural state, and I said that I had been brought there by the Lord by that companion on account of evil spirits, who search for me when I'm sleeping and then treacherously attack me, and after this I said who he was, namely Charles XII ³ . At the mention and idea of him she recognized him, that he was her son, and she called him Carl in a motherly tone. And after some talk about the circumstances of his boyhood in court, I remembered that the Queen of Sveriae ⁴ had been mother of children of which only C[harles] XII survived. And after this I spoke about the two daughters and their lot and situation. She remembered her husband Charl[es] XI, on which account they came together and mutually recognized themselves and lived together as husband and wife. This happened in 1762 on Jan. 22.

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