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For not even the inner chamber that held them protected them from fear, but terrifying sounds rang out around them, and dismal phantoms with gloomy faces appeared.
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And no power of fire was able to give light, nor did the brilliant flames of the stars avail to illumine that hateful night.
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Nothing was shining through to them except a dreadful, self-kindled fire, and in terror they deemed the things that they saw to be worse than that unseen appearance.
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The delusions of their magic art lay humbled, and their boasted wisdom was scornfully rebuked.
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For those who promised to drive off the fears and disorders of a sick soul were sick themselves with ridiculous fear.