While they lay here, there came a monster out of the woods, and slew many of the people of the town. It would also carry away their children, and teach them to suck its whelps. 911 Now, no man in the town durst so much as face this monster; but all men fled when they heard of the noise of his coming.

The monster was like unto no one beast upon the earth; its body was like a dragon, and it had seven heads and ten horns. 912 It made great havoc of children, and yet it was governed by a woman. 913 This monster propounded conditions to men, and such men as loved their lives more than their souls, accepted of those conditions. So they came under. 914