Now Siward, when he saw that a great benefit could be got at the cost of a little promise, eagerly acceded to this request.

Then the old man suddenly, by the help of his hand, touched and banished the livid spot, and suddenly scarred the wound over.

At last he poured dust on his eyes and departed.

Spots suddenly arose, and the dust, to the amaze of the beholders, seemed to become wonderfully like little snakes.
I should think that he who did this miracle wished to declare, by the manifest token of his eyes, that the young man was to be cruel in future, in order that the more visible part of his body might not lack some omen of his life that was to follow.

When the old woman, who had the care of his draughts, saw him showing in his face signs of little snakes; she was seized with an extraordinary horror of the young man, and suddenly fell and swooned away.