874. Again he came to me, and from an innermost longing, he begged them earnestly, saying that he desired heaven most intensely; and he would not stop. When this was heard, he was received into the company of good spirits from our earth, but these declared that he could by no means remain in their company. He was called by spirits of his own earth a skorstensfejare,* meaning that in his bodily life he had cleaned chimneys, causing him to be of a black color, though he himself says that he is brown. * Swedish for "chimney sweep."