“They shall meet in the middle of Germany, destroy towns and villages, after the inhabitants have been compelled to fly to the hills and the woods. This dreadful contest shall be decided in Lower Germany. There the armies shall pitch camps, such as the world has not yet seen. This fearful engagement shall begin _at the Birch-Tree_ near Bodberg. Woe! woe! poor Fatherland! They shall fight three whole days. Even when covered with wounds, they shall mangle each other, and wade in blood to the ankles. The bearded people of the seven stars (?) shall finally conquer, and their enemies shall fly; they shall turn at the bank of the river, and again fight with the extremity of despair. But there shall that power be annihilated, and its strength broken, so that hardly a few will be left, to tell of this unheard-of defeat. The inhabitants of the allied places shall mourn, but the Lord shall comfort them, and they shall say, It is the Lord’s doing.” The two preceding prophecies, both old, and printed long since, have probably a common origin, whatever that may be. The tradition has probably come to the people from the monks of Werl. Some predictions or visions, connected with the prophecy of Werl:— A seer, named Rölink, of Steinen, who has been dead some time, prophesied of three processions in Kirch-Hemmerde. “The first shall be a funeral procession. The names of several men shall be hung up on the church.” This happened when, in the war of 1813–15, some brave men of this district fell in battle. “The second procession shall go from the old church to the new one.” This took place when the Catholics of Kirch-Hemmerde built a new church; and the Host was carried from the Simultankirche into the new edifice. “The third shall be after a dreadful war. Then shall Catholics and Protestants again go together in procession into the old church, and have one religion.” He said further,— “When two towers are built between Söndern and Werl, then shall a frightful war soon break out.” The towers are now there, having been lately built. One is a chimney for the Salt-Works; the other a Bohrthurm, (a tower over the pit whence the salt spring is pumped up.) Another seer, named Ludolf, saw the whole order of battle of both armies, and pointed out in a corn-field near Kirch-Hemmerde the spot, near the _Birch-Tree_, where he saw in his vision a colonel fall from his horse, struck by a ball. The horse, he said, would run to a sheaf of oats, (therefore late in autumn,) snap at it, and in the same moment fall, also pierced by a shot. A third seer, Hermann Kappelmann, of Scheidingen, near Werl, prophesied as follows, thirty years ago (1819,) before a whole company.