A nobleman invited him, with other learned men from the University of Wittenberg, to take part in a hare hunt.

A large, fine hare and a fox crossed the path.

The nobleman, mounted on a strong, healthy steed, dashed after them, when, suddenly, his horse fell dead beneath him, and the fox and the hare flew up in the air and vanished.
"For," says Luther, "they were devilish spectres." Again, on another occasion, he was at Eisleben on the occasion of another hare-hunt, when the nobleman succeeded in killing eight hares, which were, on their return home, duly hung up for the next day's meal.

On the following morning, horses' heads were found in their place.

"In mines," says Luther, "the devil oftentimes deceives men with a false appearance of gold." All disease and all misfortune were the direct work of the devil; God, who was all good, could not produce either.